How it began, The men who changed it all, Hindustan Times, Aug, 27, 2009

The judges of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, will make public the statements of assets they declared at the time of their appointment to the Supreme Court and subsequent additions, if any.

The two high court judges, who broke the silence in the judiciary on the assets controversy, have come up with conflicting views on the stand taken by CJI K G Balakrishnan.

Faced with all-round criticism of the higher judiciary over its reluctance to make judges assets public, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan says if individual judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court want to make public their assets, they are free to

Barely three weeks after the government’s failed attempt in Parliament to keep the wealth details of judges secret, a Punjab and Haryana High Court judge has made public his family’s assets.