Why no FIR in justice Varma case, questions Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday questioned the lack of an FIR in the case discovered from high court judge Yashwant Varma Delhi residence saying that the independence of,, the judiciary is not a cover against a probe.

Dhankhar said that if the same case had come up at a common man’s home the enquiry would have gone on a blazing speed.

If the event had taken place at his house the speed would have been in electronic rocket Now it it not even a cattle cart PTI quoted Dhankhar as saying.

Dhankhar asserted that independence of judiciary can’t be a total guarantee against probes and such cover would be the surest way to degenerate an institution.

The Vice President also questioned the 3-member in-house committee probe saying that the report lacked a legal standing.

And what can the committee do the committee can at most make a recommendation Recommendation to whom and for what the kind of mechanism we have for judges the only action finally that can be taken is by Parliament he said adding that the probe is an executive domain and not be the judiciary.

He said that no investigation under the law was currently in progress at the moment, precisely due to the lack of an FIR.