India, Aug. 13 -- The Lok Sabha on Tuesday formed a three-member panel to probe charges of corruption against sitting high court judge, justice Yashwant Varma, setting the stage for his impeachment in Parliament.

Supreme Court judge Arvind Kumar, chief justice of Madras high court Manindra Mohan Srivastava, and jurist BV Acharya from Karnataka were named as the members of the panel by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, after he accepted the notice for impeachment signed by 146 Lower House lawmakers.

Another impeachment notice signed by 63 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha and mentioned by former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar sparked a controversy last month, especially after the latter's abrupt resignation. But Birla made no mention of i...