NEW DELHI, May 8 -- The Supreme Court's internal enquiry panel to probe the allegations of alleged huge recovery of cash at Justice Yashwant Varma's residence has indicted him in its report submitted to the CJI, sources told a news agency.

The report also suggests that the top court has given Justice Varma, time until Friday, 9 May, to file or submit his defence to the CJI on the in-house enquiry committee report in the case.

The three-judge inquiry committee, which was probing the cash recovery at Justice Varma's house on 14 March, started its enquiry on 25 March and submitted a report to the CJI (Chief Justice of India) Sanjiv Khanna on 4 May.

After 40 days of the panel being set up by the top court, the committee submitted its report ...