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Rules for Disclosure of Judges’ Assets
April 3 , 2025
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- Only 13 percent of High Court judges in India have declared their assets.
- As of March 2025, there are 34 judges in the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice, and about 1,100 judges in the High Courts.
- Out of these, only 98 judges have publicly disclosed their assets, primarily from the Kerala, Punjab-Haryana, and Delhi High Courts.
- In 1997, the Supreme Court adopted norms requiring judges to declare all assets before the Chief Justice, including immovable property and investments in their names, their spouses’ names, or dependents’ names.
- This was not a call for public disclosure of the assets of judges — only a disclosure to the Chief Justice.
- In 2009, the Supreme Court resolved to publish judges’ asset declarations on its official website voluntarily.
- The Parliamentary Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, and Law and Justice recommended legislation to mandate the declaration of judges’ assets.
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