New Delhi, Jan 17: The Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan, is in disagreement with the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order on making assets of its judges available to the public and is not relenting on his stand that judges are not bound to disclose their wealth.
He is taking the stand that even when the judges submit their declarations to the Chief Justice about their wealth, they do so on the basis of confidence and the submissions were not public documents.
The CIC had on January 6 had directed the central PIO of the SC to furnish information as to whether any declaration of assets had been filed by SC judges or not.