A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih held that the previous CJI and the in-house committee constituted by him had “scrupulously adopted the method besides importing pictures and movies (of discovery of money at Varma's Delhi residence)”.
The bench clarified that “nothing activates it” (importing of pictures and movies) as a result of on the “opportune second”, justice Varma didn't problem it.
SC dominated that CJI sending a letter to the PM and President (recommending Varma's impeachment) was “not unconstitutional”. It held that the structure of the in-house committee (comprising two chief justices and one excessive court docket choose) and the process adopted by it into the incident was not unlawful.
“Now we have made sure observations the place we now have stored it open so that you can increase proceedings if wanted sooner or later,” the bench mentioned whereas dismissing Varma's petition.
The bench had framed a couple of points for consideration. On the difficulty of “does the inquiry have authorized sanction”, it dominated that the process has “authorized sanction”. The bench additionally dominated that “it isn't a parallel and extra-constitutional mechanism”.On the difficulty of alleged violation of rights, SC answered that no elementary rights of justice Varma had been violated. The court docket additionally addressed the submission that the chance of listening to was not given to Justice Varma earlier than forwarding the report back to the President and the PM. It dominated that doing so was not the requirement of the process.
