NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma, who has been within the eye of a storm for greater than 13 months for the reason that unintended discovery of wads of burnt notes in his official bungalow in New Delhi, has resigned as a decide of Allahabad excessive court docket.In a letter to President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, Varma mentioned he was resigning “with rapid impact”, bringing down the curtains on what had till March 2025 appeared a promising judicial profession.
It took eyewitness testimonies of firemen and police officers earlier than the judges inquiry committee headed by SC Justice Aravind Kumar pursuant to a elimination movement, to steer the controversial HC decide to drop his resistance. That they had, on the night time of March 14-15 final 12 months, responding to a 112 fireplace emergency, stumbled upon sacks of money at New Delhi’s Tughlaq Highway bungalow of Justice Varma, then a Delhi HC decide.“Whereas I don’t suggest to burden your august workplace with the explanations which have constrained me to submit this missive, it’s with deep anguish that I hereby tender my resignation from the workplace of the decide of Hon’ble Excessive Court docket of Judicature at Allahabad, with rapid impact,” Justice Varma wrote.