Click to play videoNew Delhi: After resisting for months, Supreme Court judges may finally be giving in to public opinion and pressure to declare their assets.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that Supreme court judges may voluntarily make public their assets and put out details on a website or ask the Chief Justice of India to make the details pertaining to their assets public.
On February 11 2009, the Delhi High Court will hear an appeal by the Supreme Court challenging the Central Information Commission (CIC) order on whether Supreme Court judges should reveal their assets publicly.
This comes just a day after eminent lawyer Fali Nariman declined the Delhi High Court offer to help in the case Nariman and excused himself, saying that his views in the matter were biased and he could not assist the court.
Nariman also wrote an open letter making his views public. He said, “For judges of the highest court to litigate as to whether or not they should disclose their assets is as bad as judges going to the court on whether it was lawful for income tax to be deducted from their salaries they get. We have good judges, but we need more judicial wisdom.”
Senior Supreme Court Prashant Bhushan said, “Most other countries judges do declare their assets. In the US they declare their assets.”
The Supreme Court has consistently maintained that people in public life must come clean in all aspects of their life, but strangely, when matter pertain to their own affairs, there is a reluctance on the part of the judges to reveal their assets.
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