An ordinary government employee got fired for not declaring all the properties she owned in her SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth). The impeachment case against the chief justice is a totally similar case where the supreme court itself upheld the decision to remove the employee from government service. The way how the trial is going, it is the stand of the defense that such error can be easily corrected anytime but by visiting the decision of the high court it did not allow the same kind of reasoning for the that ordinary employee. The purpose of SALN is to check if a government employee has acquired unexplainable weath while he/she is in government service and if we admit the argument of allowing corrections after the submissions it denies the purpose of such filings that shall be done with atmost honesty and accuracy. Everytime government employees caught withholding details from their SALN, they will simply invoke that rule of being allowed to make corrections totally defeating the very idea of the SALN.An ordinary government employee got fired for not declaring all the properties she owned in her SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth). The impeachment case against the chief justice is a totally similar case where the supreme court itself upheld the decision to remove the employee from government service. The way how the trial is going, it is the stand of the defense that such error can be easily corrected anytime but by visiting the decision of the high court it did not allow the same kind of reasoning for the that ordinary employee. The purpose of SALN is to check if a government employee has acquired unexplainable weath while he/she is in government service and if we admit the argument of allowing corrections after the submissions it denies the purpose of such filings that shall be done with atmost honesty and accuracy. Everytime government employees caught withholding details from their SALN, they will simply invoke that rule of being allowed to make corrections totally defeating the very idea of the SALN.
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