On Saturday afternoon there were attempts to remove the fencing in the disputed property of Karnataka Chief Justice PD Dinakaran in Kaverirajapuram in Thiruvallur district neighbouring Chennai, which is under discrete inquiry instituted by the Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan.
Bangalore : Following a heated special general body meeting, the Advocates’ Association of Bangalore on Wednesday decided against boycotting the court of Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who is facing allegations of acquiring disproportionate wealth.
New Delhi : Ending all speculation over the fate of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill, 2009, the Union Ministry of Law and Justice on Wednesday said it would introduce a new Judges (Inquiry) Bill in the coming Session of Parliament. This Bill would also have a clause making it mandatory for judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts to declare their assets on a regular basis to their respective Chief Justices.
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal filed by the Supreme Court Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) against a single judge’s order holding that information on assets declared by Supreme Court judges in the possession of the Chief Justice of India would come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. A Bench of Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice S. Murlidhar admitted the appeal after hearing Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati and counsel Atul Nanda for the appellant and counsel Prashant Bhushan for respondent Subash Chandra Agrawal.
New Delhi : All 33 sitting judges of the Kerala High Court, including the Chief Justice, have posted details of their assets, along with those of their spouses and dependent children, on the HC website. With this, it has become the the first High Court whose judges have made public their assets and liabilities.
BANGALORE: Setting at rest speculation on whether he would preside over or abstain from conducting court proceedings in the light of allegations of corruption levelled against him, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran on Monday attended court and heard matters listed for hearing.
All sitting judges of the Supreme Court have filed declarations of assets in accordance with the May 7, 1997 resolution, the court Registry informed RTI applicant Subash Chandra Agrawal on Monday.
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NEW DELHI: Even as CJI K G Balakrishnan is holding a discreet inquiry into allegations of landgrabbing by prospective SC judge P D Dinakaran, Chennai's Forum for Judicial Accountability (FJA) has come up with more serious evidence of properties allegedly acquired by him and his immediate family members.
BANGALORE: Even as uncertainty continued over whether the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, P.D. Dinakaran, would preside over judicial proceedings from Monday, Advocate-General (AG) Ashok Harnahalli urged him to sit on the Bench and conduct the proceedings.