The government will soon bring a Bill in Parliament making it mandatory for judges of the higher judiciary to disclose their assets and liabilities, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said today.
The government is working on another Bill which seeks to set up a mechanism for inquiring into cases of corruption by judges, as at present there was no provision “short of impeachment”. “We will introduce, as part of 100 days’ programme, a legislation on the disclosure of assets and liabilities (by the judges),” he told a meet-the-press organised by the Press Association.
Moily said he has asked the law secretary to prepare clause by clause draft of the Bill within two days so that it can be sent to the Cabinet. He said it was a wrong notion that judiciary was against disclosure of assets and liabilities.
