Prayagraj, April 6 -- In a departure from the traditional public ceremonies, justice Yashwant Varma was sworn in as a judge of the Allahabad high court on Saturday morning, with members of the high court bar association questioning why "this oath was not notified to the Bar".
The oath taking ceremony has come days after Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna ordered an in-house inquiry into the recovery of "four to five semi-burnt sacks" of cash from Varma's residence in Delhi following a fire incident last month. Justice Varma has maintained that neither he nor his family was aware of the money.
While his name features on the ninth spot in the seniority list of judges of the Allahabad high court on the court's official website, people fami...