{"id":1055,"date":"2026-08-12T23:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:26:18","slug":"justice-yashwant-varma-cash-at-home-row-can-parliament-still-remove-judge-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Justice Yashwant Varma cash-at-home row: Can Parliament still remove judge from office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133195198,imgsize-27968,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/parliament-panel-finds-all-three-charges-proved-against-justice-yashwant-varma-in-cash-at-residence-case.jpg\" alt=\"Justice Yashwant Varma cash-at-home row: Can Parliament still remove judge from office?\" title=\". Justice Varma had on April 10 resigned as a judge of Allahabad High Court and had withdrawn from the inquiry proceedings\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\". Justice Varma had on April 10 resigned as a judge of Allahabad High Court and had withdrawn from the inquiry proceedings\">. Justice Varma had on April 10 resigned as a judge of Allahabad High Court and had withdrawn from the inquiry proceedings<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: There is little chance of the Lok Sabha continuing with Justice Varma\u2019s removal motion despite the inquiry committee finding the charges relating to discovery of unaccounted currency notes in his official residential premises proved.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>As per Article 217(1) of the Constitution, a judge ceases to hold office if he\/she resigns by sending a resignation letter written \u201cunder his hand addressed to the President\u201d. Justice Varma had on April 10 resigned as a judge of Allahabad High Court and had withdrawn from the inquiry proceedings, finding the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"LEzX4\">\n<div class=\"PmOGb\">\n<p class=\"PSf84\">Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Insightful<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Agree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Disagree<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Skeptical<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Concerning<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Promising<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Worth Reading<\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"sUTYm \">Big Development<\/button><\/p>\n<p><textarea class=\"T9MbS\" rows=\"1\" placeholder=\"Add your Thoughts...\"\/><button type=\"button\" class=\"ZW6JD \" disabled=\"\">Post Comment<\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"swnca\">Be respectful \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/termsandcondition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"gkv0P\">TOI community guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>How does a resignation of a constitutional court judge take effect? This question was answered by a five-judge bench of the SC in the Gopal Chandra Misra case on Feb 15, 1978. <!-- -->It was unanimous that once the judge sends his resignation to the President, he\/she is deemed to have ceased to be a judge.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>In that case, the judge had set a prospective date for his resignation taking effect and before the arrival of the appointed date, he had withdrawn his resignation. SC had by four to one majority ruled that since the resignation was prospective, the judge had every right to withdraw it prior to the appointed date.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/justice-yashwant-varma-cash-at-home-row-can-parliament-still-remove-judge-from-office\/articleshow\/133195195.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Justice Varma had on April 10 resigned as a judge of Allahabad High Court and had withdrawn from the inquiry proceedings NEW DELHI: There is little chance of the Lok Sabha continuing with Justice Varma&rsquo;s removal motion despite the inquiry committee finding the charges relating to discovery of unaccounted currency notes in his official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}