Black money case: SC irked over Govt opposition to SIT

New Delhi, Mar 29 (PTI) Indian Government on Tuesday
faced the ire of the Supreme Court for opposing formation of a
Special Investigating Team (SIT) to probe the case of black
money as the court said it was needed because the agencies
involved in the three-year probe have not gone into the source
of the money.
"That is the fundamental question (source of money)
which we have been asking and this has not been answered by
the agencies involved in the probe," a bench comprising
justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar said while
expressing their dissatisfaction over the probe.
The Bench said it was favouring the constitution of
SIT as there was not substantial progress in the investigation
into the source of money.
"The manner in which it (investigation) has proceeded
since 2008 makes it clear that there has not been substantial
progress in the investigation. The speed at which the
investigation ought to have been done has not been done," it
said.
"Since 2008, you have known that certain individuals
for years have some kind of money abroad. Instead of looking
into that, you talked about double taxation treaty and this
treaty and that treaty. Simple questions you could have asked
those individuals were that from where you have got that money
which you have so far not answered," it said.