Plea for police probe into Delhi HC judge residence fire listed on March 28

Petition in Supreme Court seeks FIR against Delhi High Court judge for unaccounted money, challenges jurisdiction of inquiry committee.

A petition seeking a direction to the police to register a First Information Report and investigate allegations of “huge sums of unaccounted money” found on the official residential premises of sitting Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma is listed in the Supreme Court on March 28, 2025.

The case is listed before a Bench of Justices A.S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan.

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The petition had been orally mentioned before the Chief Justice of India on March 26 by petitioner-advocate Mathews J. Nedumpara for an early hearing.

The petition has also challenged the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court-appointed three-member committee to inquire into the affair. It argues that the committee has no jurisdiction to investigate the incident. The responsibility falls on the police to effectively and meaningfully investigate the allegations, it said.

Mr. Nedumpara has also asked the Supreme Court to take a re-look at a Constitution Bench judgment of 1991 in the K. Veeraswami case. The 1991 judgment had held that no criminal case should be registered against a High Court judge, Chief Justice of a High Court or a Supreme Court judge without prior consultation with the Chief Justice of India.