His plea was talked about on Wednesday earlier than a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai.
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Mukul Rohatgi, Rakesh Dwivedi, Sidharth Luthra and Siddharth Aggarwal, amongst others, showing on behalf of Justice Varma submitted, “we now have filed the petition on behalf of the Allahabad Excessive Court docket choose. Some constitutional points are there. I request you to represent a bench as quickly as potential”.
Talking for the bench, the CJI verbally stated it will not be correct for him to take up the matter. He, nonetheless, stated a bench will likely be constituted to take up Justice Varma's plea.
Justice Varma has additionally challenged the advice made by former chief justice of India Sanjiv Khanna to the president and the prime minister to provoke impeachment proceedings towards him.
Justice Varma said in his plea that the in-house inquiry committee made the findings with out giving him a good alternative to reply.
