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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) agreed to perceive Allahabad High Court justice Justice Yashwant Varma's plea challenging the constitution of an Inquiry Committee by Lok Sabha Speaker to probe corruption charges against him.
The Inquiry Committee comprises Supreme Court justice Aravind Kumar, Madras High Court Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, and elder Karnataka High Court advocator B.V. Acharya.
A seat of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih issued notices to the bureau of the Lok Sabha Speaker and the secretaries-general of some the Houses and sought their responses.
The substance is posted for the adjacent proceeding connected January 7, 2026.
Wads of burnt currency were recovered pursuing a occurrence successful the storeroom of the judge's authoritative residence successful the nationalist superior connected March 14.
The Supreme Court was proceeding a plea filed by Justice Varma challenging the legality of the three-member committee constituted solely by the Lok Sabha nether the process provided by the Judges Inquiry Act.
"Issue an due writ, bid oregon absorption declaring and mounting speech the Impugned Action dated August 12, 2025 of the Hon'ble Speaker of the Lok Sabha successful constituting the Hon'ble Committee nether Section 3(2) of the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968 arsenic unconstitutional, being violative of Articles 124, 217 and 218 of the Constitution of India, 1950, and contrary to the process established by instrumentality nether the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968," the plea said.
The counsel appearing for Justice Varma submitted that the instauration of a question regarding his removal successful some Houses of Parliament mandates that the constitution of a three-member committee indispensable person been formed jointly by some Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and not unilaterally by the Speaker of Lok Sabha.
According to the Judges (Inquiry) Act of 1968, erstwhile a question to region a justice is admitted successful either of the Houses, the talker oregon the chairman, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be, volition represent a three-member committee to analyse the grounds connected which the removal (or, successful fashionable term, impeachment) has been sought.
