New Delhi, June 19 -- The misconduct found proved serious enough to call for the initiation of proceedings for the removal of High Court Justice Yashwant Varma, the three-judge panel formed to probe allegations has recommended.

The panel also found the allegation of cash recovery from Justice Varma's official residence to be true and concluded that the burnt cash was removed from the residence's storeroom.

The three-member committee, set up by the Supreme Court, had confirmed the presence of cash found at High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma's residence in New Delhi after a fire broke out there around Holi on March 14.

On May 8, the then Chief Justice of India(CJI) Sanjiv Khanna forwarded the findings of a three-judge in-house commi...