New Delhi, June 17 -- Senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday slammed the Supreme Court's in-house inquiry against Justice Yashwant Varma, saying that the three-member committee indicted the judge without hearing him and without following any procedure.

In the press conference, he said the committee report did not mention the amount of money recovered from the outhouse near Justice Varma's residence in New Delhi. The committee concluded that if the cash was placed in the outhouse, it must have been after the judge's permission, said Sibal.

The in-house report was prepared by Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court; Justice G.S. Sandhawalia, Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court...