New Delhi: Justice MB Shah, chief of Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Black Money said on Wednesday that there was nothing new in the list of names submitted by the government and that the SIT would submit its probe report in time.
Justice Shah said, “I don’t think there is anything significant in the report. This list is the same as before. It was known to us. We have to question the people in the list.”
Notify that Centre had submitted list of 627 names of Black Money holder to Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The apex court had later handed this list of account holders in HSBC, Geneva, to the SIT that’s been set up to inquire into black money.
Those names, however, have already been in the SIT’s possession since June end, when it got them from the government.
Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi sought to ensure that secrecy rules related to bilateral accords, under which the information has been obtained, aren’t broken.
He said, “According to the term of the treaties, there is a clause of confidentiality. I only request that nothing should be done to impede information from these countries.”
The bench did not make the names public, merely noting that the information was handed over by the government “voluntarily.”
Chief Justice of India HL Dattu said, “We do not intend to open it. Now that we have the names, we will send it to the SIT to proceed as per the law. The SIT will evolve its own procedure to hand it over to the IT, CBI etc.”
CJI HL Dattu, who heads the special bench that also comprises justices Ranjana P Desai and Madan B Lokur.
Bureau Report
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