Chennai, July 25: Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan today said failure to furnish details of assets or declaring false details by Judges would amount to “misconduct”, which could be a ground for their removal.
“Failure to declare or declaring false details can be presumed to be a misconduct on the part of the judge and this can be a ground for removal of the judge,” the CJI, who is in the city to inaugurate a guest house for judges, said.
Responding to queries on the proposed Judges Assets Bill, which seeks to make it mandatory for judges of higher judiciary to declare their assets, Justice Balakrishnan said, “we have been already doing it… judges declare assets to the Chief Justice of India when they are appointed as judges. We want it to be made into a law.
–PTI