New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- The Lok Sabha on Tuesday formed a three-member committee to probe the charges against former Delhi high court Judge 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 will be the members of the panel, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced after he accepted the notice for impeachment signed by 146 Lok Sabha lawmakers. While the Opposition MPs had given a similar notice in the Rajya Sabha, which was received by former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, there was no mention of it by Birla, signalling that only Lok Sabha, without collaboration with the Upper House, has formed the three-member probe panel, establishing the Lower House's primary jurisdiction in the issue. In the Lok Sabha, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, former Union ministers and BJP members Anurag Thakur, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and PP Chaudhary signed the notice. NCP(SP) leader Supriya Sule and Congress MP KC Venugopal are among the leaders who signed the notice, officials said. A huge controversy erupted days after a huge stash of cash was discovered after a fire broke out at the residence of justice Varma, then a judge of the Delhi high court, on March 14, when he was away on a Holi break. His personal secretary had alerted the fire department. The cash discovery row led to several steps, including a preliminary inquiry by Delhi high court chief justice DK Upadhyaya, judicial work being taken away from Justice Varma in the Delhi high court, and later his transfer to his parent Allahabad high court sans judicial work. A committee of three high court judges appointed by then CJI Sanjeev Khanna had indicted him. Justice Khanna referred the matter to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recommending Varma's removal. A motion to remove a judge must be signed by not less than 100 MPs in the Lok Sabha. To pass an impeachment motion, the proposal has to be supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-third of the members of the House present....