The petition contends that impeachment of a judge is not an adequate remedy, stating that removal from office is only a civil consequence, and penal action is required.

The case in question relates to a custodial death in Jamnagar in Gujarat in 1990, when Mr Bhatt was an Additional Superintendent of Police.

Karnan saw rot in the judiciary and tried to do something about it. Only the judiciary can clean up the judiciary.

Justice Varma has not yet offered any explanation about the recovered money. According to news agency PTI, he did not hold court today.

The withdrawal comes two weeks after it was accepted and a day after it was published in the Trademark Journal.

The court took into account the underage girl's claims that she had a consensual affair with the accused and added that she was conscious of her conduct.

The Bombay High Court stated that both the victim and the accused were of the age to have a reasonable understanding of their conduct.

The court said that if the litigant was so very concerned about the construction of illegal religious structures on government land, he should have taken measures to challenge all such illegal structures.

"It is for the prosecution and the Court to determine whether such a person, notwithstanding his crime, can be reformed and rehabilitated," the court said

After reading the FIR, Justice Lakshminarayan said that “This is pure victim blaming”, asking Attorney General PS Ramam whether he had read it.