The ITAT Bar Association has passed an important resolution in which it has offered objective and practical suggestions on how to tackle the menace of alleged corruption in the ITAT<\/p>\n
Text of the RESOLUTION passed by the Managing Committee of the ITAT Bar Association, Mumbai which was held on 21st June, 2013 <\/strong><\/p>\n
\u201cResolved that when a complaint is made against a member about his honesty, the President in consultation with the collegium of members should look into it and if there was reason not to doubt the genuineness of the complaint the matter may be referred to a committee consisting of persons of proven integrity and Preferably headed by a retired\/serving High Court judge to investigate the complaint and if it was found that there was merit in the complaint necessary action should be taken against the concerned member. In the meantime no judicial work should be allocated to him. The committee to whom a reference has been so made must furnish its report within a time bound period. In the alternative the Government of India through the Ministry of Law may consider the setting up of the office of an Ombudsman to whom complaints can be made by all concerned against, inter alia, acts of corruption\/financial irregularities alleged to be indulged in by a member. It was further resolved that mere transfer of a member to another station is no solution and action should be initiated instead of transferring him as that would only spread the cancer of corruption further. \u201d <\/p>\n
For ITAT Bar Association<\/p>\n
Arun P. Sathe (Sr. Advocate)
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