{"id":664131,"date":"2025-03-27T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=664131"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:31:52","slug":"justice-yashwant-verma-is-in-deep-trouble-in-the-cash-at-home-case-now-the-high-courts-bar-association-has-demanded-a-criminal-investigation-from-the-cji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/664131\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Yashwant Verma is in deep trouble in the Cash at Home case; Now the High Courts Bar Association has demanded a criminal investigation from the CJI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New Delhi:\u00a0 The ‘cash at home’ case of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Verma has created a stir in the judicial and legal system of the country. Now the bar associations of various High Courts have united in this matter and have demanded the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna to initiate a criminal investigation against Justice Verma. Along with this, the Supreme Court Collegium has also been urged to withdraw the recommendation to transfer Justice Verma to Allahabad High Court. This incident started when on March 14, 2025, a fire broke out in the storeroom of Justice Verma’s official bungalow and reports of sacks full of cash being recovered from there came to light.<\/p>\n

A joint statement issued by the presidents of the Bar Associations of various High Courts\u2014Delhi, Allahabad, Kerala, Karnataka and Gujarat\u2014has made several serious demands. The statement said, \u201cWe appreciate the CJI\u2019s move to adopt transparency and make public the report of the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and other material on the Supreme Court website.\u201d Along with this, the Bar Association demanded that Justice Verma\u2019s transfer be cancelled, his judicial as well as administrative work be withdrawn and criminal law be applied against him, as in the case of a government employee.<\/p>\n

The joint statement also argued that as per the report of the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, on March 15, 2025, someone had removed material from Justice Verma’s residence. If a criminal investigation had been initiated at that time, the destruction of evidence could have been prevented. “There may be involvement of other people in such crimes, and not registering an FIR will adversely affect their prosecution process,” the statement said. The bar association also announced that if Justice Verma’s transfer is not revoked, the bar presidents of all the high courts will gather in Allahabad and show solidarity with the Allahabad High Court Bar Association.<\/p>\n

The joint statement aims to set standards of accountability for judges of the higher judiciary and to review the in-house procedure adopted by the Supreme Court in 1999, the ‘Restatement of the Values \u200b\u200bof Judicial Life’ adopted in 1997 and the Bangalore Principles of 2002. Meanwhile, a public interest litigation (PIL) has also been filed, challenging the validity of the FIR lodged against Justice Verma and the three-member inquiry committee constituted by the CJI.<\/div>\n
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The controversy started on March 21, when reports emerged that sacks of cash were found in the outhouse of Justice Verma’s bungalow after a fire broke out in the storeroom. On March 22, CJI Sanjiv Khanna constituted a three-member committee to investigate the matter, which was part of the in-house process. The decision was taken after a report by Delhi High Court Chief Justice DK Upadhyay, which indicated the need for a thorough investigation. The Supreme Court also published on its website the report of the Delhi High Court Chief Justice, Justice Verma’s response and photos and videos shared by the Delhi Police Commissioner.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi:\u00a0 The ‘cash at home’ case of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Verma has created a stir in the judicial and legal system of the country. Now the bar associations of various High Courts have united in this matter and have demanded the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna to initiate a criminal investigation against Justice Verma. Along with this, the Supreme Court Collegium has also been urged to withdraw the recommendation to transfer Justice Verma to Allahabad High Court. This incident started when on March 14,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":664132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664134,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664131\/revisions\/664134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}