The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused an urgent mentioning of a plea seeking a direction to Delhi Police to lodge an FIR over the alleged discovery of semi-burnt stash of cash from the official residence of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma.<\/p>\n

A bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna was urged by lawyer Mathews J Nedumpara that the plea be listed for urgent hearing before a bench as it pertained to larger public interest.<\/p>\n

The Chief Justice, who has stopped the practice of oral mentioning of cases for urgent listing, said that the plea would come up.<\/p>\n

The lawyer said that the top court has done a “commendable job” but an FIR was needed.<\/p>\n

“Don’t make public statements,” the Chief Justice said.<\/p>\n

A woman and co-petitioner in the matter said that if such a case was against a common citizen then several probe agencies, like CBI and ED, would have been after that person.<\/p>\n

“This is quite enough. The plea will come up accordingly,” the Chief Justice said.<\/p>\n

A plea was filed by Nedumpara and three others on Sunday seeking a direction to police to lodge an FIR in the matter.<\/p>\n

The plea also challenges the 1991 judgement in the K Veeraswami case, in which the top court ruled that no criminal proceedings could be initiated against a judge of the high court or the top court without the prior nod of the Chief Justice of India.<\/p>\n

The alleged cash discovery happened following a fire at Varma’s Lutyens Delhi residence at around 11.35 pm on March 14, prompting the fire officers to rush to the spot.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the three members of a Supreme Court-appointed in-house committee visited the residence of Justice Varma, as it commenced its inquiry into allegations.<\/p>\n

In the wake of the controversy, the top court Collegium recommended the repatriation of Justice Varma, who was de-rostered by the Delhi High Court following a directive from the Chief Justice, to his parent, Allahabad High Court.<\/p>\n

On March 22, the Chief Justice constituted the three-member committee to conduct an in-house inquiry into allegations and decided to upload the inquiry report of Chief Justice D K Upadhyay of the Delhi High Court in the incident. It included photos and videos of the alleged discovery of a huge stash of cash.<\/p>\n

Justice Varma denounced the allegations and said no cash was ever placed in the storeroom either by him or any of his family members.<\/p>\n

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