The in-house committee set up by CJI Khanna also found evidence of cash being removed from the store room in the early hours of 15 March

The CJI’s power to recommend removal of a judge on the basis of an in-house committee’s report may be diluting the separation of powers

The answer lies in a 2014 Supreme Court case where the complainant challenged a two-judge probe committee set up by the CJ of the MP HC