With the Supreme Court moving an appeal in the Delhi High Court against the Central Information Commission (CIC) order on making assets of its judges public, the Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has made it clear that the judges "are not bound to disclose" their wealth.
"There is no statute or law which insists that the judges or the superior courts should submit declaration of their assets. Even then, our judges are submitting the declaration of assets to the Chief Justice", the Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said. His remarks in an interview come close on the heels of the Supreme Court Registry taking the unprece dented step of moving the high court, challenging the January 6 decision of the CIC. The CIC had asked the Central Public Information Officer of the Supreme Court to furnish information within 10 days as to whether any declaration of assets has been filed by the judges of the Supreme Court or not. Justice Balakrishnan said he was going by the Resolution passed by the Supreme Court on May 7, 1997 which required judges of the apex court to make a declaration of their assets to the CJI. "It is not a public document", he said adding, that the declaration given by his colleagues was "based on confidence." http://www.dc-epaper.com/DC/DCB/2009/01/18/ArticleHtmls/18_01_2009_008_013.shtml?Mode=1 ----------------------------- http://www.saveindianfamily.org/ http://www.societymirror.info/ http://www.crisp-india.org/ http://www.antidowry.org/ http://www.wethemen.us/ I also blog at: http://legalterror.wordpress.com Keep Fighting Legal Terrorism Keep Fighting Inequality in Justice http://www.pollsb.com/webdigr http://www.myntra.com/affiliate/329 If "con" is the opposite of "pro", then what is the opposite of progress? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
