New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed three-member committee investigating the alleged discovery of cash from the house of Delhi high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma began its inquiry on Tuesday (March 25).
The committee members including Justice Sheel Nagu (Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana high court), Justice GS Sandhawalia (Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh high court), and Justice Anu Sivaraman (judge of Karnataka high court) visited Justice Yashwant Varma’s bungalow at 30, Tughlak Crescent in Delhi, reported Hindustan Times.
The committee members spent around 30-35 minutes inside the house, inspecting the premises before they left.
The committee was constituted on March 22 by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna to carry out an inquiry into the discovery of “four to five semi-burnt sacks” of Indian currency notes that were allegedly discovered after a fire incident reported at Justice Varma’s bungalow.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had made public a video showing the presence of currency in the gutted room.
It also made public late on Saturday (March 23) Justice Varma’s response to the developments to Delhi high court chief Justice Devendra Upadhyaya, in which he denied ever placing cash into the room and alleged the presence of a conspiracy in its discovery.
