New Delhi, July 24 -- Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai on Wednesday said he would constitute a bench to hear the petition filed by Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, but clarified he would not be part of it. Justice Varma sought an expedited hearing of his plea challenging the findings of a Supreme Court-appointed in-house inquiry panel that concluded there was "strong inferential evidence" of his "covert or active control" over a stash of charred cash found at his official residence in Delhi (when he was posted at the Delhi high court) earlier this year. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Justice Varma, mentioned the matter before the CJI and urged for early listing, citing important constitutional issues involved in the case. The CJI agreed but said it would not be proper for him to be part of the hearing bench, given his previous involvement in internal discussions surrounding the case. "I think it will not be proper for me to take up that matter because I was part of that conversation," remarked the CJI, but assured that a bench would be constituted to take it up....