New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- The Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Allahabad High Court Justice Yashwant Varma regarding the cash-at-home scandal.

Justice Varma's plea challenged the in-house inquiry report, which indicted him in the case-at-home scandal, as well as the recommendation made by former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna to impeach him over the recovery of a large sum of unaccounted cash at his official residence in Delhi.

Pronouncing the judgment on Thursday, August 7, the Supreme Court bench held at the outset that the writ petition cannot be entertained at all, in view of the conduct of Justice Varma in participating in the in-house inquiry and later questioning the competence of the in-house panel to cond...