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CIC gives SC 10 days to disclose if judges have declared assets

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    • Krishnadas Rajagopal Tags : CIC, judges assets Posted: Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009 at 0142 hrs

    The Commission held that the CJI and the Supreme Court are “one and the same”.

    “The Chief Justice of India and such number of judges as the Parliament may by law prescribe, is an institution or authority of which the Chief Justice of India is the head. The institution and its head cannot be two distinct public authorities. They are one and the same,” it said.

    Therefore, “under the RTI Act, the CPIO is obliged to provide this information to a citizen making an application under the RTI Act unless the disclosure of such information is exempted under the law.”

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    disclose of assests By: chandragupthan.g.s | 18-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Judges are bound to be honest and it is wonder what prevents from disclosing their assests. CJI should be aware that Lower Court Judicial officers are having benami bank accounts to have their corrupt money to be deposited and they withdraw them by ATM. Ofcourse CJI has stated in a interveiw that small mamools in the lowest grade is unavoidable. CJI must keep up the pride of the Apex Court and must remove the gallery of photo and restrain from acting an politician
    Judges are no AngelsBy: Rambabu | 07-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Congrats CIC! Transparency
    RE: CIC and judge asset declarationBy: kkjingar | 07-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Really good step in transparency.
    Judges Asset DeclarationBy: Uttrakhandi | 07-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward This is a historic judgement by the courageous members of the CIC which should be supported by all the people. Everyone, including our honourable judges, want to be a VIP with separate rules for them compared to the common citizen. We can not be called a civilized country so long we have such a long list of VIPs with different rules for them, despite equality enshrined in our constitution. The CJI was wrong when he first refused to apply the RTI rules to the judges and it will now require courage and magnanimity to accept the mistake and rectify it by agreeing to apply the rules to them equally. What moral authority SC can have in applying the provision of equality to other so called VIPs in any matter if it does not apply it to its own members? And it was shocking to read the hair-splitting done by the SC Registry in declaring that CJI office and SC were different entities- it is a pathetic argument. Lets all support the CIC line, if necessary by sending a memorandum to the SC.
    Good decisionBy: Munish Kaushik | 07-Jan-2009 Reply | Forward Very encouraging decision by CIC.....
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