NEW DELHI: A high-level judicial panel, inquiring into the invention of an enormous amount of money on the official residence of HC decide Yashwant Varma on March 14 evening, in its report back to CJI Sanjiv Khanna has suspected the decide’s private workers for the mysterious disappearance of the money.The inquiry panel comprising Punjab and Haryana chief justice Sheel Nagu, Himachal Pradesh CJ G S Sandhawalia and Karnataka HC’s Justice Anu Sivaraman recorded the statements of the decide’s non-public secretary and workers, safety personnel posted at his residence in addition to fireplace and police personnel on the hearth incident on the Tughlaq Crescent bungalow, the official residence of then Delhi HC decide Varma.All personnel among the many first responders have been unequivocal that they made movies of burning money in addition to sacks of money untouched by the leaping flames of the hearth that broke out on the storeroom throughout the decide’s residential premises and left the place with out seizing any of the money, both burnt or unburnt.Delhi HC Chief Justice D Ok Upadhyay, on being knowledgeable concerning the incident by the Delhi Police commissioner at 4.50pm on March 15, had instructed his registrar-cum-secretary to go to Justice Varma’s residence and examine the place of fireplace. On reaching the residence, he was taken to Justice Varma by the latter’s non-public secretary.Justice Varma took the CJ’s secretary to the room, which was adjoining to the decide’s official residence. He discovered that although burnt articles and particles have been within the room, there was no signal of any money, burnt or unburnt.The inquiry panel recorded that the hearth service was alerted by police, who obtained the primary name concerning the incident on the decide’s residence at 11.35pm on March 14.They reached the spot at 11.43pm, doused the hearth and left the scene at 1.56am on March 15. The panel additionally discovered that shortly thereafter police personnel, who videographed the incident, additionally left the home, abandoning the money because it have been within the room. Safety personnel posted on the decide’s residence knowledgeable the panel that Justice Varma’s non-public secretary and private workers stayed again. The panel mentioned it’s prima facie of the opinion that the money disappeared from the room within the early hours of March 15 and that the hearth scene was cleared of all burnt and unburnt notes, which couldn’t have been carried out with out the information and involvement of the decide’s non-public secretary and private workers.Nonetheless, the panel mentioned it could require a proper investigation to summon witnesses and document their statements, which can’t be carried out by the casual inquiry panel because it had not been conferred with powers to probe as per the felony process code. It’s to be seen whether or not Delhi HC initiates any disciplinary proceedings towards the decide’s non-public secretary based mostly on the inquiry panel’s prima facie findings.CJI Khanna had forwarded the inquiry report back to Justice Varma searching for his response and with a suggestion that he ought to stop judgeship. Justice Varma refused to stop, forcing the CJI to ship the inquiry report together with the decide’s response to the President and the PM for formal initiation of a elimination movement towards him.Justice Varma was repatriated from Delhi HC to Allahabad HC, his father or mother excessive court docket, instantly after the structure of the inquiry panel and has been stripped of judicial work.