From the India Today archives (2011) | When it was Judgment Day for a former HC judge

Justice Nirmal Yadav, who retired from the Uttarakhand High Court, is accused of changing her signature while buying land in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district to hide her identity. The committee had set out to probe two allegations: First, that Rs 15 lakh was delivered by Parkash Ram, junior munshi of Haryana's then additional advocate-general Sanjiv Bansal at the house of Justice Nirmaljit Kaur in Sector 11 in Chandigarh on August 13, 2008. The money was meant for Justice Yadav, who was a Punjab and Haryana High Court judge at the time, and was sent to her by Ravinder Singh of Delhi through Sanjiv Bansal. Second, this money was seized by the police and Rs 15 lakh was then paid by Singh to Justice Yadav on August 14, 2008, through Rajeev Gupta, Bansal's friend. The three-judge panel said the manner in which Bansal arranged to send Rs 15 lakh to Justice Yadav after he had wrongly sent it to Justice Nirmaljit Kaur the previous night showed there was "some kind of urgency in the entire money transaction.