Black money case: AG Mukul Rohatgi submits list of 627 foreign account holders to SC

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi submitted three sets of documents, which reportedly include names of 627 or 628 people who have stashed away ill-gotten wealth in banks abroad to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover here on Wednesday.

The government has also submitted a status report in a sealed cover.

The Supreme Court has reportedly instructed the apex court registry that hands over the sealed covered information to a Special Investigation Team (SIT), and asked that details be made known to it by next month. It said that only the chairman and the vice chairman of the SIT are allowed to open the sealed envelopes.

The apex court had on Tuesday asked the Union Government to release all the names of the people who have stashed their black money in accounts abroad. This order came after the latter had released the names of three account holders on Monday.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had emphatically expressed the government's keenness in getting to the root of the matter so that the account holders' names comes out and they face legal action and eventually bring back the money lying in foreign shores back to the country.

"The government has absolutely no difficulty in giving it to either the court, and the government shall place the list before the court, because, the government has already given it to the court constituted SIT," said Jaitley.