21 of 33 Supreme Court Judges Publicly Disclose Assets Amid Push for Transparency

21 of 33 Supreme Court Judges Publicly Disclose Assets Amid Push for Transparency

In a significant step toward judicial transparency, 21 out of the 33 sitting judges of the Supreme Court have made their asset declarations public. The disclosures were published on the Supreme Court's official website on Monday.

This move follows a full court resolution passed on April 1, directing that judges’ asset statements be placed in the public domain. The decision came in the wake of mounting allegations of corruption in the judiciary, most notably surrounding the Justice Yashwant Varma controversy.

The apex court clarified that the remaining disclosures would be uploaded as and when they are received. “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 court noted.

As of now, asset details for 12 judges have not yet been published.

A list of judges who have disclosed their assets includes:

  1. Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Chief Justice of India

  2. Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai

  3. Justice Surya Kant

  4. Justice Abhay S. Oka

  5. Justice Vikram Nath

  6. Justice M.M. Sundresh

  7. Justice Bela M. Trivedi

  8. Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha

  9. Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia

  10. Justice Jamshed B. Pardiwala

  11. Justice Pankaj Mithal

  12. Justice Sanjay Karol

  13. Justice Sanjay Kumar

  14. Justice Rajesh Bindal

  15. Justice K.V. Viswanathan

  16. Justice Ujjal Bhuyan

  17. Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti

  18. Justice Augustine George Masih

  19. Justice Sandeep Mehta

  20. Justice Manmohan

  21. Justice K. Vinod Chandran

Judges whose asset statements have not yet been made public include Justices JK Maheshwari, BV Nagarathna, Dipankar Datta, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Manoj Misra, Aravind Kumar, Prashant Kumar Mishra, Satish Chandra Sharma, Prasanna B. Varale, N. Kotiswar Singh, R. Mahadevan, and Joymalya Bagchi.

Earlier, the Supreme Court website only reflected whether judges had submitted their asset declarations to the Chief Justice. Although a 2009 full court resolution endorsed the disclosure of judges' assets, it was based on voluntary declarations.

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