A three-member committee constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla last year to look into the charges against Justice Yashwant Varma submitted its report to the Speaker on Monday, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said in a statement.
Justice Verma tendered his resignation on April 10, a move seen as a virtual end to the ongoing parliamentary probe into allegations of unaccounted cash found at his official residence in Delhi last year. However, his resignation was not accepted by the president.
“The Judges Inquiry Committee, which is probing the allegations relating to Justice Shri Yashwant Varma, submitted its report to the Hon’ble Speaker of the House, Lok Sabha Shri Om Birla at Parliament House today. The report, which has been submitted in accordance with the legal requirements under the Judges (Investigation) Act, 1968, will be placed before the Houses of Parliament in due course,” the Lok Sabha Secretariat said in a statement on Monday.
Birla formed the committee on August 12, 2025, when he accepted the motion seeking the removal of the judge.
Two senior parliamentary officials told HT that the judge’s resignation has not yet been accepted and Parliament can act on the inquiry report.
“The content of the report will be revealed once it is submitted to the House in the next monsoon session. We do not know whether the report has found Justice Verma guilty. But Parliament can act on the report as Justice Verma’s resignation has not been accepted yet,” he said.
The impeachment proceedings against Justice Varma arose from the alleged discovery of stacks of currency notes at his official residence in Delhi after a fire in March 2025, when he was serving as a judge of the Delhi High Court. Later, an internal inquiry committee of the Supreme Court found his explanation unsatisfactory, prompting then Chief Justice of India Sanjeev Khanna to recommend action to the Prime Minister and President.
Subsequently, motions calling for the judge’s removal were submitted in both houses of Parliament, in July. While the Rajya Sabha proposal was not accepted, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha accepted the proposal on August 12 and constituted a three-member inquiry committee under the Judges (Investigation) Act, 1968.
Justice Varma was then transferred to his father’s high court in Allahabad but without judicial work.
Congress Lok Sabha MP and advocate Manish Tiwari asked whether impeachment proceedings could continue after the judge resigned.
“It is a matter that has to be examined legally. If you look at the case of Justice Soumitra Sen, you will find that the Rajya Sabha had removed him. But before the Lok Sabha took up the proceedings, he had resigned and the charge was dropped. So, the case of Justice Verma, who resigned – but whose resignation was not accepted – has to be examined legally and constitutionally. I also do not want to guess what is the content of the report,” Tiwari told HT.
In July 2011, Justice B D Dinakaran of the Sikkim High Court tendered his resignation while facing impeachment proceedings. After his resignation, Vice President Hamid Ansari dissolved the three-member committee that investigated the alleged corruption charges against him.
The three-member committee formed on August 12 was headed by Supreme Court Justice Aravind Kumar and includes Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Srivastava and advocate PV Acharya from Karnataka. It was reconstituted in February when Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court Shri Chandrashekhar was appointed, replacing Justice Srivastava who was scheduled to retire on March 6.
