Lok Sabha probe panel finds Justice Yashwant Varma guilty in unaccounted cash row

An inquiry committee formed by the Lok Sabha has found that “unexplained bundles of Rs 500” were recovered from the Delhi residence of former High Court judge Yashwant Varma and that he had given misleading explanations about it, reported Live Law on Wednesday.

In its report tabled in Parliament, the three-member committee said that all the charges framed against Varma are proved.

The unaccounted cash had been recovered at Varma’s official residence in Delhi when emergency services responded to a fire there on March 14, 2025. He was a judge at the Delhi High Court at that time.

The judge said that he was in Bhopal at the time of the incident and claimed that the cash did not belong to him or his family.

The controversy prompted his transfer to the Allahabad High Court.

The panel noted in its report on Wednesday that Varma failed to provide a satisfactory explanation about the “presence, source or ownership” of the cash, reported Live Law.

The cash was neither secured nor preserved and later disappeared, the panel was quoted as saying by The Indian Express. This disappearance remains unexplained, it added.

The committee further noted that the explanations given by Varma were “evasive and unsatisfactory when tested against the evidence of independent official witnesses”.

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