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:
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Chief Justice of India
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai
Justice Surya Kant
Justice Abhay S. Oka
Justice Vikram Nath
Justice M.M. Sundresh
Justice Bela M. Trivedi
Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha
Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia
Justice Jamshed B. Pardiwala
Justice Pankaj Mithal
Justice Sanjay Karol
Justice Sanjay Kumar
Justice Rajesh Bindal
Justice K.V. Viswanathan
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan
Justice S. Venkatanarayana Bhatti
Justice Augustine George Masih
Justice Sandeep Mehta
Justice Manmohan
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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