NEW DELHI: Of 33 sitting judges in the Supreme Court, a total of 21 have declared their assets, including of their spouse, in a move enhancing transparency in the judiciary.
After a full court resolution of April 1, the judges declared their full assets on Monday night, on the Supreme Court's website.
In terms of the details uploaded on the SC website, outgoing Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna has a three-bedroom DDA flat in South Delhi, a four-bedroom flat/apartment with two parking spaces in Commonwealth Games Village, Delhi, measuring 2446 sq ft super area. He has 56% share in four-bedroom flat/apartment in Sispal Vihar, Sector 49, Gurugram, measuring 2016 sq ft super area. He is also having his share in Dev Raj Khanna (HUF), part owner of house with undivided share in land at Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh.
As per his disclosure, he has Rs 55.75 lakh in fixed deposits and bank accounts and Rs 1.06 crore in Public Provident Fund (PPF- Account opened in the year 1989). He has GPF of Rs 1,77,89,000. He has got LIC Money Back Policy with yearly premium of Rs 29,625 and Shares of Rs 14,000.
The CJI, who is to demit office on superannuation on May 13, has no liabilities and loan on him.
The CJI-designate, Justice B R Gavai, has Rs 19.63 lakh in bank accounts and Rs 6.59 lakh in his PPF account. He has a residential house at Amravati, Maharashtra (inherited from deceased father), a residential apartment at Bandra, Mumbai, Maharashtra (self) and a residential apartment in Defence Colony, New Delhi (self).
Justice Gavai has also agricultural land at Amravati, Maharashtra, and at Kedapur and Katol, Nagpur, (inherited from deceased father).
Justice Surya Kant, who is to succeed Justice Gavai as the CJI, has one kanal house in Sector 10, Chandigarh (jointly owned by Self/Spouse/HUF), 13 and half acres (approx) of agricultural land at Village Golpura, District Panchkula (jointly owned by self/spouse/HUF), 300 Sq Yards Plot in Sushant Lok-1, Gurugram. (jointly owned by self/spouse/HUF), a Ground floor and basement in 285 Sq Yards house in G.K.-I, New Delhi, (jointly owned by self/spouse).
He also declared a 192 sq yards house in Sector 18-C, Chandigarh (jointly owned by self/spouse), 250 sq yards house in DLF-II, Gurugram (self). He has also 1/3rd share in the agricultural land measuring about 12 acres and a house at village Petwar, Dist Hisar, besides 1/3rd Share in 250 sq yards house, Urban Estate-II, Hisar, (inherited from father).
Justice A S Oka, who is to retire on May 24, has among his assets Rs 92.35 lakh in PPF, Rs 21.76 lakh in FD, a 2022 model Maruti Baleno car and a car loan of Rs 5.1 lakh.
Justice Vikram Nath has declared a 2-BHK apartment in Noida, a bungalow in Allahabad and inherited agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh. He also has Rs 1.5 crore in investments.
Among others, Justice K V Viswanathan looked richest for having made investments of Rs 120 Crores and has paid tax of Rs 91 Crores in the last 10 years.
Justice Viswanathan, who was directly elevated to the Supreme Court, has a builder floor house, purchased in 2010, in Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi. He has also a builder floor house purchased in 2014 in Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi.
He had a joint ownership (50% share with spouse) of a builder floor house, purchased in 2016, in Gulmohar Park, New Delhi.
As many as 12 judges, who have yet not declared their assets are: Justices B V Nagarathna, J K Maheshwari, Dipankar Datta, Manoj Misra, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Aravind Kumar, Prashant Kumar Mishra, Satish Chandra Sharma, Prasanna B Varale, N Kotiswar Singh, R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi.
