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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | “No violation in seeking allowance for CJI’s wife” by J Venkatesan

“No violation in seeking allowance for CJI’s wife” by J Venkatesan

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published Published on Jan 16, 2010   modified Modified on Jan 16, 2010

No practice has been violated in seeking sanction for grant of a daily allowance by the Union government to the spouse of Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, Supreme Court Secretary-General (SG) said on Friday.

The statement came in response to a reply furnished by the Law Ministry to RTI activist Subash Chandra Agrawal that the SG recently requested revised sanction allowing a daily allowance to the CJI’s spouse for six days for a visit to Dublin and London from October 12 to 18, 2009 as “she has been getting this from the Indian missions abroad” and that the matter was under examination.

The Department of Justice in the Ministry said: “In regard to foreign official visits of the CJI and the judges of the Supreme Court, this department has sanctioned only air passage for the accompanying spouse. No other allowance has been sanctioned.”Mr. Bhadran said: “It is incorrect to say that so far the government was providing only air tickets to the spouses of the CJI and other judges and that no other allowance has been sanctioned. The government has been providing a daily allowance to not only the spouse of the CJI but also the spouses of other judges as and when they go abroad. The officers working in the Indian Foreign Service are enjoying this facility. The same facility is being extended to the spouses of the CJI and all judges of the Supreme Court.”

The SG said he had made a request only for issuing a revised sanction order allowing a daily allowance and “that is not against the practice so far followed by the government.” During the last three years whenever the CJI visited abroad with his wife, a daily allowance was sanctioned to the spouse. “The government has declined the daily allowance only for the last foreign trip of the CJI to London. That is the very reason why such a request was made for providing a daily allowance to CJI’s spouse as the government has been doing in the past.”

In his application, Mr. Agrawal wanted details of allowances given to judges by the government in the last three years and to provide rules for such foreign trips.

The Justice Department said there were no specific rules for travel by judges, accompanied by spouses, on official visits abroad. It was permitted case by case. To Supreme Court Protocol Officer R.C. Gandhi, the department said: “We have received a letter dated October 23, 2009 from Mr. Bhadran regarding issue of revised sanction allowing daily allowance for six days to the CJI’s spouse for the official London visit and this matter is being examined in consultation with the Department of Expenditure.”


The Hindu, 16 January, 2010, http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/16/stories/2010011660951100.htm
 

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