In A Historic First | Supreme Court Publishes Judges Asset Declarations On Website | Remaining Statements To Be Uploaded Upon Receipt
Kiran Raj
Twenty-one of the thirty-three sitting judges of the Supreme Court have made their asset details public. The information was released on Monday on the official website of the top court.
The decision to publish the details follows recent allegations of corruption within the judiciary, notably the Justice Yashwant Varma controversy. In response, the full court of the Supreme Court resolved on April 1 that judges' statements of assets should be placed in the public domain. The details released yesterday are pursuant to this decision.
Twelve judges are yet to make their statements public. According to the Supreme Court, “Statements of assets of Judges already received are being uploaded. Statement of assets of other Judges will be uploaded as and when the current statement of assets is received.”
The following judges' asset details are available on the court’s website:
- Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Chief Justice of India : View
- Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai : View
- Justice Surya Kant : View
- Justice Abhay S. Oka : View
- Justice Vikram Nath : View
- Justice JK Maheshwari : NA
- Justice BV Nagarathna : NA
- Justice M.M. Sundresh : View
- Justice Bela M.Trivedi : View
- Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha : View
- Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia : View
- Justice Jamshed Burjor Pardiwala : View
- Justice Dipankar Datta : NA
- Justice Pankaj Mithal : View
- Justice Sanjay Karol : View
- Justice Sanjay Kumar : View
- Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah : NA
- Justice Manoj Misra : NA
- Justice Rajesh Bindal : View
- Justice Aravind Kumar : NA
- Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra : NA
- Justice K.V. Viswanathan : View
- Justice Ujjal Bhuyan : View
- Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti : View
- Justice Satish Chandra Sharma : NA
- Justice Augustine George Masih : View
- Justice Sandeep Mehta : View
- Justice Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale : NA
- Justice N Kotiswar Singh : NA
- Justice R Mahadevan : NA
- Justice Manmohan : View
- Justice K Vinod Chandran : View
- Justice Joymalya Bagchi : NA
The names of judges whose statements are yet to be uploaded include Justice JK Maheshwari, Justice BV Nagarathna, Justice Dipankar Datta, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Justice Manoj Misra, Justice Aravind Kumar, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, Justice Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale, Justice N Kotiswar Singh, Justice R Mahadevan, and Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
Previously, the website only listed the names of judges who had declared their assets to the Chief Justice of India. In 2009, the Supreme Court had resolved to disclose judges' statements of assets, though the process remained voluntary.
