Supreme Court reserves its verdict on Justice Verma challenge

NEW DELHI: New Delhi: Supreme Court connected Thursday reserved its verdict connected a plea of Allahabad HC justice Yashwant Varma challenging the Lok Sabha speaker's determination to signifier an enquiry committee arsenic per Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968, successful the impeachment question moved against him. A seat of Justices Dipankar Datta and S C Sharma reserved its determination aft proceeding elder advocates Mukul Rohatgi, Siddharth Luthra who was, appearing for Varma and solicitor wide Tushar Mehta, representing some houses of Parliament. Varma challenged the LS speaker's determination connected procedural grounds. He alleged though the notices for his impeachment were fixed successful some Houses, LS Speaker Om Birla constituted a probe committee unilaterally without awaiting admittance of the question by the Rajya Sabha chairman. He said nether a proviso to Section 3 of Judges (Inquiry) Act, a associated consultation betwixt LS talker and RS president is contemplated erstwhile the impeachment question is raised successful some Houses. However, SG Tushar Mehta, appearing for LS caput general, submitted that RS did not admit the impeachment motion, meaning the proviso would not apply. He submitted that the impeachment question was rejected by RS lawman president connected Aug 11, 2025, aft the president (then vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar) resigned successful July. On Wednesday, SC orally observed that determination was nary barroom nether Judges Inquiry Act connected LS Speaker Om Birla mounting up an enquiry committee to probe corruption charges against Varma aft a akin question was rejected successful RS.