The Supreme Court has made public reports, photos, and videos related to allegations of unaccounted cash found at the residence of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court. A three-judge panel has been formed to investigate the matter. Justice Varma has denied the allegations, calling them a conspiracy. The Supreme Court has sought details from the High Court and instructed Justice Varma not to delete any data from his phone.
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00:00Alright, let's move on to our top focus story this Sunday. In a rare public disclosure,
00:05the Supreme Court has upholded reports, photos, videos related to allegations of unaccounted
00:11cash discovered at the official residence of Justice Yashwant Verma, a sitting judge
00:16of the Delhi High Court. The materials now available on the court's website reveal the
00:20findings of an internal investigation as well as Justice Verma's first detailed response
00:26denying the allegations. Now the Supreme Court also uploaded videos and photographs
00:31which Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora perpetually shared with the Chief Justice
00:36of the Delhi High Court. A three-judge panel has been formed by the Supreme Court now to
00:41probe the case. As far as Justice Verma, whose residence these cash piles were found half
00:46burnt of course because of the fire that had broken out at his residence, he has denied
00:50the allegations, calling them a conspiracy to malign him. He also claims the room where
00:54the cash was found was accessible to everyone including his workers, gardeners and even
00:59staff from the Central Public Works Department. The Supreme Court has now written to the High
01:04Court asking questions from Justice Verma and the top court has sought details of the
01:09source of the cash, details of staff members from the last six months at Verma's residence.
01:15Justice Verma has been explicitly asked not to delete any data from his phone as the investigation
01:21has now kicked off to identify where all this cash came from.
01:51Justice Yashwant Verma, the hard cash that was found at his residence, the in-house has
02:10published it on their website. Both the websites have published it. It seems that this is a
02:19case of investigation and I think that the Supreme Court will take strict action in this.
02:26Only transfer, suspend or termination is not allowed. But criminal prosecution can also
02:35be done regarding this.
02:36Because this is a very serious issue, it is very important that the investigation is done
02:42quickly. This committee has been formed to investigate and hopefully this committee will
02:48provide us with information through its report that the allegations that have been made are
02:54true or not.
02:56If they are saying that they have become victims of conspiracy, then this is a very serious
03:00issue which is bigger than recovery of currency. Because if currency is a way to somehow malign
03:08the system so that the judicial system is discredited, this is a very serious issue
03:13and with this inquiry should start.
03:16Corruption in any form is a termite that destroys the institution and it does great injustice
03:23to any institution if a corrupt person or anyone who has taken cash is found in terms
03:28of the good work that those people there are doing. So we would expect that the truth
03:32should come out at the earliest and the logical steps that follow must take place thereafter.