Parliamentarians on Monday submitted notices of a movement to the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha for the elimination of Justice Yashwant Varma, from whose New Delhi residence burnt wads of foreign money notes had been discovered throughout a hearth incident.
A bipartisan delegation submitted a discover, bearing the signatures of 145 Lok Sabha members, for the elimination of Justice Varma to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The discover was submitted beneath Articles 124, 217 and 218 of the Structure.
The signatories included Chief of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, BJP leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Anurag Thakur, NCP-SP chief Supriya Sule, Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Ok Suresh, DMK chief TR Baalu, RSP member NK Premachandran and IUML member ET Mohammed Basheer, amongst others.
An analogous elimination discover was submitted by 63 Rajya Sabha members to RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar.
“Sixty-three opposition MPs, together with these from AAP and INDIA bloc events, have given a discover to the Rajya Sabha Chairman for elimination of Justice Varma,” Congress member Syed Naseer Hussain mentioned.
He additionally mentioned, though Trinamool Congress (TMC) members weren’t current on Monday, they’re on board on the problem and can submit their signatures later.
In line with the Judges (Inquiry) Act, when notices of a movement are submitted on the identical day in each the Homes of the Parliament, a committee to look at the costs levelled towards the decide might be constituted by the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Rajya Sabha Chairman.
The panel comprising a senior decide of the Supreme Court docket, a sitting chief justice of a excessive court docket and a distinguished jurist will then probe the costs levelled towards Justice Varma and might be requested to return out with a report in three months.
The inquiry report might be tabled in Parliament, adopted by a dialogue in each Homes after which there might be voting on the movement for the elimination of Justice Varma.
Following the money controversy, Justice Varma was repatriated from the Delhi Excessive Court docket to the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.
