VP Jagdeep Dhankhar (File Picture)
NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday reiterated Justice Yashwant Varma’s case and mentioned that the federal government was handicapped resulting from a three-decade-old judicial order that prevented it from registering a First Data Report (FIR) with out prior permission from the judiciary.Dhankhar, who’s on a two-day go to to Kerala, has interacted with college students and college on the Nationwide College of Superior Authorized Research (NUALS), Kochi. Calling the Yashwant Varma cash-at-home case ‘ghastly crime,’ Dhankhar referring to the big stash of money recovered from a decide’s official residence, he questioned, “Is this money tainted? What is its source? How did it land in a judge’s quarters? Who does it actually belong to?” He confused that a number of authorized provisions seem to have been violated and expressed hope that an FIR can be filed promptly. Referring to Ides of March movie, the Vice President mentioned that the judiciary had ‘Ides of March’ on the evening intervening 14th and fifteenth March: a horrible time!“Cash in large amount was found the official residence of a judge of the High Court. Now, if that cash was found, the system should have moved immediately and the first process would have been to deal with it as a criminal act, find out those who are culpable and bring them to justice. But so far, there has been no FIR,” Dhankhar mentioned. “The government at the central level is handicapped because an FIR cannot be registered in view of a judgment of the Supreme Court rendered in early 90s. I’m all for independence of Judiciary. I’m a strong votary of protecting judges. We must protect our Judges from frivolous litigation. But when something like this happens, it is worrisome,” he added. Earlier, on June 4, parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju mentioned the federal government would carry out a decision in Parliament within the monsoon session for impeachment movement in opposition to Justice Varma. Justice Varma was topic of a probe by a Supreme Court docket-appointed panel after a hearth incident at his Delhi residence led to the invention of a number of burnt sacks of money on the outhouse.
