Judge resigns year after cash pile found at home | India News
New Delhi: Justice Yashwant Verma, who has been under fire for over 13 months since the accidental discovery of burnt notes in his government bungalow in New Delhi, has resigned as a judge of the Allahabad High Court.In a letter to President Draupadi Murmu on Friday, Verma said he was resigning “with immediate effect”, bringing down the curtain on what appeared to be a promising judicial career till March 2025.
Eyewitness accounts of firemen and police officers have been taken before an inquiry committee of judges headed by SC Justice Arvind Kumar, who is pursuing the impeachment motion to persuade the controversial High Court judge to drop his immunity. They, on the night of March 14-15 last year, while responding to the 112 fire emergency, stumbled upon the sack of cash in a bungalow on Tughlaq Road, New Delhi, the then Delhi High Court judge said.“Though I do not propose to burden your august office by compelling me to submit this missive, it is with deep pain that I resign with immediate effect from the office of Judge of the Hon’ble High Court of Judiciary, Allahabad,” Justice Verma wrote.
