An in-house inquiry committee constituted by the Chief Justice of India concluded that cash was found in the gutted storeroom at the official residential premises of High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, and police and fire authorities were “slipshod” in not lodging an FIR or preparing a seizure memo recording exactly what they came across at the scene of the fire on March 14-15.
The committee said the “higher police officials” had sought to explain their inaction by pointing to reasons like the “sensitivity of the issue” and the absence of Justice Varma at his residence at the time of incident. Justice Varma and his wife were in Bhopal on a holiday trip on the night of the fire.
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