Supreme Court Challenges Supreme Court’s In-House Inquiry

• Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenges the Supreme Court’s in-house inquiry process, which recommended his removal from office.

• The in-house inquiry committee, led by then-Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, found unaccounted cash in Varma’s residence after a blaze.

• Varma challenged both the report and Khanna’s action in the Supreme Court, arguing that the in-house inquiry undermines Parliament’s exclusive authority.

• The petition, filed under an anonymous acronym ‘XXX’, argues that the in-house procedure had no legal sanction and threatens the separation of powers.

• Varma urges the Supreme Court to declare the in-house procedure “unconstitutional.”