Except judicial decision making, judiciary under RTI Act New Delhi, Apr 29 (PTI) A parliamentary committee today held that judiciary comes under the purview of the Right to Information law with regard to all activities of administration except "judicial decision making".
Top jurists on Thursday slammed Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan for “trying to undermine the importance of transparency in the judiciary” by refusing to make public details of assets of Supreme Court and high court judges.
Amidst growing demands from various quarters of the society for declaration of assets by judges, Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Wednesday said that they have already done it. However, he refused to make the details public.
Why won’t judges of India’s Supreme Court and High Courts be willing to declare their wealth when their counterparts in other democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom do it as a routine?
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.