‘Cash at judge’s home’: Phones, call records to be preserved amid fears of evidence tampering

New Delhi: Amid suspicion of evidence tampering bid in the 'cash at home' of Delhi High Court judge Yashwant Varma, senior judges and investigators probing the March 14 incident have asked the former to secure his phone and call records.

Apart from conducting forensic tests on the burnt currency notes allegedly recovered from an outhouse on the premises of Justice Varma's official bungalow, investigators are also expected to inspect call records of all phones which were present at 30 Tughlak Road, Near Lok Kalyan Marg Metro, on March 14 night when the fire broke out.

Call records of phone numbers, which were contacted by people present on the premises and calls received by them immediately after the fire broke out, will also be scanned as part of a technical investigation, said Delhi Police sources.

In his defence, Justice Varma has denied any wrongdoing and alleged a conspiracy to malign him, outrightly rejecting the insinuation that he removed currency from the storeroom.

He is also reported to have challenged visuals of burnt wads of Rs-500 notes shown in a video given by Delhi Police to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna. The video was purportedly shot around the time of firefighting at the outhouse on the premises of Justice Varma's official residence.

Investigators suspect that an attempt to tamper with evidence may have been made during or immediately after firefighters doused the blaze in 'stationery and domestic articles in a storeroom' before leaving at 1.56 a.m. on March 15.

Witness accounts of Delhi Police Control Room personnel present at the fire scene, along with firefighters, and the subsequent video recording of the fire scene have lent credence to the theory about the presence of burnt Rs-500 notes at the site. (IANS)

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