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NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma connected Friday submitted his resignation to the President amid currency betterment enactment and impeachment process.This follows the contention implicit the alleged find of unaccounted currency and the impeachment proceedings initiated against him successful Parliament, ANI reported. Justice Varma of the Allahabad precocious tribunal was earlier transferred from the Delhi precocious tribunal aft the allegations surfaced. He took oath connected April 5 past twelvemonth and was aboriginal placed nether a Supreme Court-led in-house inquiry, which recommended further action.In his April 9 missive to President, Justice Varma said that helium did not privation to load President's 'august office' with the reasons that "constrained" him to resign.
"It is with heavy anguish that I tender my resignation arsenic Judge of Allahabad HC with contiguous effect," helium said successful the letter.
What is the lawsuit about?
The lawsuit centres connected allegations that unaccounted currency was recovered aft a occurrence broke retired successful a storeroom astatine Justice Varma’s authoritative residence connected March 14.Fire tenders responding to the blaze recovered important amounts of currency astatine the premises. The justice was not contiguous astatine the residence astatine the time.
The incidental triggered an in-house enquiry by the Supreme Court, the findings of which led to the initiation of impeachment proceedings successful Parliament.The Lok Sabha Speaker accepted a question signed by 146 Members of Parliament and acceptable up a three-member committee to analyse the allegations. The sheet included Justice Amit Kumar, Justice Maninder Mohan Srivastava and B B Acharya.During earlier hearings, the Supreme Court questioned wherefore Justice Varma did not situation the in-house enquiry process astatine the outset and alternatively participated successful it earlier raising objections later.Justice Varma had argued that the proceedings were unconstitutional and challenged some the enquiry findings and the proposal made by past Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna to initiate impeachment.
