India, April 17 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday questioned the lack of an FIR in the case regarding the cash discovered from high court judge Yashwant Varma's Delhi residence, saying that the independence of the judiciary is not a cover against a probe.

Dhankar said that if the same case had come up at a common man's home, the enquiry would have gone on a blazing speed.

"If the event had taken place at his (common man's) house, the speed would have been an electronic rocket. Now it is not even a cattle cart," PTI quoted Dhankhar as saying.

Dhankar asserted that independence of judiciary can't be a total guarantee against probes and such cover would be the surest way to degenerate an institution.

The Vice President also ...