THE SUPREME COURT ON TUESDAY issued notice to the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Secretariats of both Houses of Parliament on a petition filed by Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the initiation of impeachment proceedings against him, alleging procedural violations under the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968.
A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih appeared prima facie unconvinced by the manner in which the impeachment process had been triggered, questioning how parliamentary legal advisers permitted what Justice Varma has described as a unilateral exercise of power by the Lok Sabha Speaker.
“So many MPs and legal experts but no one pointed this out?,” Justice Datta asked during the hearing.
The Court issued notice to the Speaker, as well as to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats, and is likely to hear the matter in the first week of January.
Justice Varma has assailed the decision of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to constitute a three-member inquiry committee on August 12, 2025, contending that the Speaker acted without awaiting the admission of an identical impeachment motion moved before the Rajya Sabha Chairman on the same day it was presented to the Lok Sabha Speaker.
