India, Jan. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Allahabad high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker's decision to admit a motion seeking his removal following reports of unaccounted cash found at his official residence in Delhi last year, and to constitute an inquiry committee under the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968.

Clearing the decks for the three-member inquiry committee constituted by the Lok Sabha Speaker to proceed further, a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma held that the judge was not entitled to any relief in the petition moved by him.

The bench categorically rejected his contentions that a joint committee was mandatory under the Judges (Inquiry...