SC appoints SIT to probe black money issue

he Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Government for shoddy investigations into cases of black money stashed abroad and appointed a two-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former apex court judge BP Jeevan Reddy to investigate the issue. The second member of the team is former Supreme Court judge MB Shah.

While appointing the SIT, the apex court said that the high-level committee constituted by government to look into black money issue will become part of

SIT.

The Court also directed the Government to disclose names of those issued show cause notice by authorities in connection with the black money case.