Overview

• Government plans to table the impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma on the first day of Parliament’s Monsoon session and make the Supreme Court’s in-house inquiry report public.
• Varma faces allegations after a March fire at his Delhi residence exposed several burnt sacks of cash in an outhouse.
• A three-member in-house committee convened by the Supreme Court submitted its report to the chief justice on May 4, but its details remain under wraps.
• Kapil Sibal defends Varma as “one of the finest judges” and criticises the inquiry for failing to probe the Delhi Police’s actions and the cash’s provenance.
• Critics warn the move could undermine judicial independence by weakening the Collegium system and shifting appointment power to the NJAC.