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Assets: ‘SC judges need not reveal more’

New Delhi: It seems the declaration of assets by the Chief Justice of India and his 21 judges on their website are just enough, if not more. A three-member Special Bench of the Delhi High Court on Thursday said the Right to Information cannot legally probe further. The reason, simply put, is that the RTI ....Read more

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Thou shall Not Judge By: jnansk | Saturday , 14 Nov '09 7:22:34 AM Reply | Forward 100 Percent Transparency for Assets and the wealth if they are to be so called JUDGE at any level.

ASSETS OF S.C JUDGESBy: KRISHNAN.S | Friday , 13 Nov '09 10:09:37 AM Reply | Forward Is the whole issue an excercise in futility?There should be a more comprehensive legislation on decleration of assets by judges.Let an put an end to this farce exercise.Enough is not enough,so far, in this case.Much more in the form of decleration is needed from judges by way of declaration of assets and wealth-these two are different terms.

judge's assetBy: sudhir kumar pattnaik | Friday , 13 Nov '09 9:47:07 AM Reply | Forward Sir, the issue of declaring the assets of the supreme court judges has became a national debate. If we go by the majority opinion, we would find that the judges should disclose their assets and finally in the SC web site, the judges including the chief justice disclosed their assets. But the controversy still remains as the judiciary does want to come within the perview of the RTI act and the judge ment of the Single judge of Delhi high justifing the directon of CIC that the office of the chief justice, india comes under the RTI act, is challanged by the judges of supreme court in a larger bench and finally it is held that the judges`are to disclose their assets not more than the ressolution passed by the apex court in 1997 and vitually the order of the CIC and the judgement of the single judge are overruled.The point is if this judgement is challanged before the supreme court then whether the supreme court is competent to decide the issue where the judges are parties.

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