New Delhi, July 6 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday announced that he will table the inquiry committee's report on the charges against Allahabad high court judge justice Yashwant Varma when Parliament reconvenes. However, justice Varma resigned on April 9 this year, nearly 13 months after allegations surfaced that burnt wads of unaccounted cash were discovered at his official residence in Delhi following a fire in March 2025. If Varma is no longer a judge, can Parliament consider removing him through impeachment? Birla's decision does more than revive one inquiry and reopens unresolved questions about the constitutional meaning of resignation itself, the limits of parliamentary removal powers and the point at which a judge truly ceases to occupy judicial office. Should the House decide to move beyond merely tabling the report and attempt to proceed with removal despite Justice Varma's resignation, India could witness the first authoritative judicial examination of whether Parliament's impeachment jurisdiction survives the constitutional exit of the judge it seeks to remove. Until then, the Speaker's decision leaves the country confronting an unusual constitutional spectacle - a judge who has relinquished his office in practice, but whose legal status remains the subject of one of the most consequential constitutional debates in recent years. P9...