Overview

• The three-judge panel found unburnt and half-burnt currency in a storeroom at Varma’s Delhi residence under his and his family’s exclusive control, citing testimony from 55 witnesses and photographs.
• Panel members concluded that Varma never filed a police report or notified judicial authorities and offered no plausible explanation for the cash, rejecting his claim of a framing conspiracy.
• The committee formally recommended initiating removal proceedings, and former Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna forwarded its 64-page report to President Murmu and Prime Minister Modi on May 8.
• Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal is expected to introduce the motion in the monsoon session, with at least 100 Lok Sabha and 50 Rajya Sabha members required to back it for consideration.
• If passed, the motion would remove the first constitutional court judge in independent India and intensify scrutiny of judicial transparency and accountability.