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New Delhi Aug 3: The UPA government was on Monday forced to differ the introduction of the Judges’ Assets Bill in the Rajya Sabha owing to strong resistance from the Opposition parties including the Left.
The opposition parties objected to the bill, which allows judges not to make their assets public, by calling it a violation of the right to equality.
Referring to the Section 91 of the Constitution, BJP’s leader of the house, Arun Jaitley said, “There cannot two laws. On one hand you ask people contesting elections to declare their assets and on the other hand you allow judges (those who are holding public office) not to make their assets public.”
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat was also of the opinion that the Judges' Assets Bill was violative of the equality of all citizens.
Amidst the din, the government contented that the assets of judges would be monitored by an internal mechanism created by the Supreme Court.
There is no law, whatsoever that judges will have to declare their assets as a liability. There is an internal mechanism created by the Supreme Court in their resolution. The first resolution is on the values of the judicial system and next on the declaration of the assets. We find a lot of corruption in the judiciary… we need to deal with that. What could not be asserted for 60 years, I am asserting today. Our Judges Inquiry Bill will be very comprehensive bill. We are working a road map for judicial reforms," said Moily.
But the Opposition was remained antagonistic to the bill and the government's lack of majority in the upper house forced Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily to withdraw the Bill. The house was later adjourned.
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