New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in Supreme Court seeking lodging of an FIR into the alleged recovery of huge sums of money from the official residence of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.
The petition, filed by lawyer Mathews Nedumpara, also urged the SC to declare its verdict in K Veeraswami vs UOI case which said no criminal case shall be registered against a judge of the SC or HCs without prior permission of the Chief Justice of India as ‘per incuriam and sub silentio’ (situation where a court makes a decision without explicitly stating or considering a particular point of law).
“The petitioner believes that the consequence of the aforesaid direction, that no FIR shall be filed, was certainly not present in the minds of the judges. The said direction creates a special class of privileged men/women immune from the penal laws of the land. Our judges, except for a minority, and not a microscopic one, are men and women of the greatest of erudition, integrity, learning and independence. Judges do not commit crimes. But incidents where judges are caught red handed accepting money cannot be denied. The judgment in K Veeraswami case, to the knowledge of the petitioner, has stood in the way of an FIR being registered,” the petition said. TNN
