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The resignation of Justice Yashwant Varma has revived a question Indian instrumentality has not answered satisfactorily successful the past 14 years. When a justice quits successful the shadiness of parliamentary removal, does the statutory enquiry against him autumn with him? The question has arisen before. When Justice P.D. Dinakaran resigned successful July 2011, the committee was coiled up, contempt its sittings aft his resignation. Justice Soumitra Sen’s lawsuit went further. His enquiry committee returned adverse findings. The Rajya Sabha voted to region him successful August 2011. He resigned connected the eve of the Lok Sabha vote, and the question was dropped arsenic infructuous. Justice Varma has present resigned arsenic his committee nears conclusion. The archetypal 2 episodes produced nary reform. The 3rd is inactive successful progress.
Speaker Om Birla stands astatine the aforesaid fork. One roadworthy leads backmost to the prime Vice-President Hamid Ansari made successful September 2011, erstwhile helium coiled up the committee examining charges against Justice P.D. Dinakaran. The different was acceptable retired that twelvemonth by jurist G. Mohan Gopal, a subordinate of that committee, successful a missive to his 2 colleagues. The letter, aboriginal obtained nether the RTI Act, was work and circulated. Its reasoning prevailed wrong the committee, which did not bring the enquiry to an end. Mr. Ansari did. That reasoning has not been rebutted. Its juncture has present recurred.
