New Delhi, March 22 -- Until Friday, Delhi high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma was known as the man who curbed the Enforcement Directorate's zeal for investigation by ruling that the federal agency cannot probe any offence other than money laundering and that it cannot presume that there is an underlying crime (what is called a predicate offence).

Justice Varma delivered the verdict on January 24, 2023 in a case filed by Prakash Industries Limited, aggrieved by ED's action of passing a provisional attachment order in November 2018.The case is currently being heard by a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta.

But late on Thursday, the Supreme Court collegium, in an emergency meeting, decided to repatriate Varma, ...