India, July 25 -- A Supreme Court bench led by justice Dipankar Datta is set to hear next week justice Yashwant Varma's petition challenging the findings of an in-house inquiry panel that concluded there was "strong inferential evidence" of his "covert or active control" over a stash of charred currency recovered from his official residence in Delhi earlier this year.

According to people familiar with the matter, Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai assigned the case to the justice Datta-led bench on Wednesday evening, hours after Varma's legal team sought an urgent listing. The people cited above added that the CJI ordered the matter to be listed "immediately" and that the petition is expected to come up for a hearing on July 28 or 29...