The government has decided to
constitute a Special
Investigation Team, SIT, to unearth black money stashed in banks in foreign
countries.
Briefing the media after the first Cabinet meeting
of the new government, the Law and Communication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
said that the team will be headed by former Supreme Court Judge M.B.Shah and another former Supreme Court Judge Arijit Pasayat will be vice chairman of the panel.
The panel will include revenue secretary, CBI and IB
directors, Enforcement Directorate officials, CBDT Chairman and RBI Deputy
Governor.
The Supreme Court had last week granted the
government one week to constitute the SIT for monitoring all black money cases.
Mr. Prasad said, the government will hold a high level
meeting for railway safety in the wake of the Gorakhpur train accident. He said
that the Railway Minister has already gone to teh accident site to take stock
of the situation.
The Minister said that tomorrow, there will be a
Cabinet meeting in which other important decisions including convening of
Parliament Session will be taken.
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