New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday declined to entertain a petition seeking registration of an FIR and an independent probe by the CBI or a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged presence and subsequent removal of a large quantity of currency from the official residence of former Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.

Justice Amit Bansal questioned the locus of the petitioner, advocate Ghanshyam Upadhyay, and observed that he had an alternative remedy of approaching the Delhi Police and thereafter the competent magistrate.

During the hearing, the court remarked: "I am not entertaining this, sir. This is a wild witch hunt. You have nothing better to do?"

The court subsequently permitted Upadhyay to ...