No Urgent Hearing Of Plea Seeking Case Against Judge In Cash Row: Top Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused an oral plea for an urgent hearing into a petition seeking directions to Delhi Police to file a complaint and investigate the burnt bundles of cash found earlier this month at the home of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.

Responding to the urgent listing plea, a bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna told advocate Mathews J Nedumpara, one of the petitioners, to not make "public statements" and said "sorry..." when asked for an out-of-turn hearing, adding it would be listed in due course.

In raising the issue in court, the petitioners had flagged the non-registration of a FIR, or police complaint, on the day the burnt money was found, i.e., on Holi, when Delhi firefighters were called to put out a blaze in an outhouse on the grounds of Justice Varma's bungalow.