When Supreme Court judges adopted a resolution a decade ago to make a periodic declaration of their assets to the Chief Justice of India, they took care to state that the details of their holdings would not be made public.

We take the optimistic view that successive Chief Justices of India shall he nceforth act in accordance with the Second Judge's case and this opinion,' Justice S.E Bharucha said on October 28, 1998, delivering the Supreme Court's advisory opinion on the President's Reference. The Court

A day after the Supreme Court refused to order a judicial inquiry into the allegations of misconduct against former Chief Justice of India YK Sabharwal, top jurists said on Tuesday, that many legal options were available to initiate a probe into the matter.

In 1993, a nine -judge bench of the Supreme Court laid down a new system for making appointments of judges to the high courts and Supreme Court. This system gave enormous powers to a collegium of senior judges of the Supreme Court to select and