NEW DEHLI , APRIL,10:
Allahabad high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, from whose official residence a huge amount of cash was purportedly discovered after a fire, has resigned, The Wire has learnt.
Justice Varma wrote to President Draupadi Murmu on April 9, tendering his resignation. He was supposed to retire in 2031.
The judge, who was at the Delhi high court at the time of the fire in March 2025, had maintained that the cash is not his and that the place where fire broke out was not part of his actual residence.
“While I do not propose to burden your august office with the reasons which have constrained me to submit this missive, it is with deep anguish that I hereby tender my resignation from the office of Judge of the Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, with immediate effect,” he wrote.
The Wire has reported on the saga of this ‘cash discovery’ at Justice Varma’s house, and also on the claim that the judge was being implicated in a case not of his own doing.
A second-generation judge – his father was also a judge of the Allahabad High Court – Justice Varma was considered a no-nonsense judge, Maneesh Chhibber wrote in 2025, who was not averse to asking uncomfortable questions of investigating agencies like ED, Income Tax, etc.
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