November 2, 2009 8:43 PM

printer

SC judges furnish detal of assets on SC website

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and 20 other judges of the Supreme Court today made public their assets. The assets of Justice B N Agrawal, who retired on 15th of October, were also declared on the website on his special request.<br/> The apex court website said that the declarations of assets were purely on voluntary basis. However, the details of the assets of Justice H S Bedi were not not available. The Supreme Court judges made their assets public exactly two months after the Delhi High Court on 2nd September held that the office of the Chief Justice of India falls under the RTI Act and disclosure of assets of the apex court judges to him could be made public.<br/> While the matter is pending before a Single Judge Bench, the Supreme Court judges had agreed to voluntarily declare their assets on the official website. Mr Balakrishnan said on 28th of August that under the changed circumstances, all the judges, in an unanimous decision have agreed to disclose their assets. He had said the disclosure would be strictly in accordance with the 1997 resolution and the assets relating to real estate and investments made even in the name of dependents would be put on the website.

Most Read
View All arrow-right

No posts found.