Media & Entertainment News President should make public her assets: RTI activist June 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment President Pratibha Patil should release the details of her and her family members’ assets in the public domain as it would set a precedent for the parliamentarians, a Right to Information (RTI) activist said Friday. “As a head of state and parliament, the president of India should take the initiative of putting her property details […] Read more » assets President President Pratibha Patil public RTI activist
Top Law News RTI queries on Balakrishnan’s assets pile up May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s apex human rights body gets about 40 RTI queries a month. But of late, the number has shot up to almost 200. And a lot of them have to do with former chief justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan’s assets. Balakrishnan is chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). “The number of queries on […] Read more » assets Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan National Human Rights Commission RTI
Media & Entertainment News Lokpal Bill: Civil society members to declare assets Friday April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days before deliberations on the anti-graft Lokpal Bill are set to begin, NGO India Against Corruption (IAC) Thursday said the civil society members in the joint drafting committee will declare their assets and liabilities Friday. The NGO also released revised details of donations and expenditure during activist Anna Hazare’s anti-graft campaign that culminated in […] Read more » Anna Hazare assets Civil society declare Friday Lokpal Bill members
Top Law News Gujarat officer challenges order for disclosure of assets November 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday issued a notice to the state government after a senior bureaucrat asked the court to set aside a state government order asking officials to furnish details of their assets. Notices were issued to the state government, its public information officer, the chief information commissioner. Arvind Agrawal, an Indian Administrative Service […] Read more » assets challenges disclosure Gujarat officer
Top Law News Badal, family acquitted in disproportionate assets case October 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The district court in this Punjab town Friday acquitted Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his wife Surinder Kaur Badal and their son Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in a disproportionate assets case against them. The acquittal by the court in Mohali, 10 km from Chandigarh, is likely to come as a big relief […] Read more » acquitted assets case disproportionate Family
Top Law News No action against MPs for not disclosing assets: Activist June 29, 2010 / June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four months after a right to information (RTI) plea revealed that 70 Lok Sabha members had not declared their assets to the speaker, the authorities have yet to take any action, a transparency law activist said Tuesday. The information was disclosed Feb 24 in a reply to the RTI application filed by Subhash Chandra Agrawal, […] Read more » assets disclosing