Time has retried the prior sanctions of judges of SC, HC who filed the lawsuit: Dhankhar
New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar asserted on Monday that “time has revisited” a Supreme Court decision that calls for the filing of Supreme Court and High Court judges, demanding a pre-sanction as he questioned the delay in the FIR in the cash discovery case involving High Court Justice Yahwant Varma.
He also called it a “serious problem” with the relocation of three judges on the internal committee investigating the case to retrieve electronic devices from witnesses. “This is a serious problem. How to do this?”
Dhankhar stressed the need for a scientific criminal investigation into the matter, saying everyone in the country was wondering whether it would be washed away, whether it would disappear over time.
“How come the criminal justice system is not operating for what everyone else does? …The question is the question of people breathing, the traces of money, its source, its purpose, its purpose, its purpose, does it contaminate the judicial system? Who do we need to find out?
Judge Womah was transferred to the Allahabad High Court in March after he recovered a large amount of cash in his official residence in New Delhi, where he served as a judge in the Delhi High Court.
Dhankhar said at a book launch that “time has been revisited” by K Veeraswami’s verdict.
The 1991 K Veeraswami v. India case was a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court that aimed at addressing the applicability of the Anti-Corruption Act to senior judicial judges and underlined the importance of judicial independence.
The Supreme Court stressed that under the Corruption Prevention Act, judges are indeed “civil servants”, but pointed out that prior sanctions are required to be brought against judges.
