Scroll.in: New Delhi: Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
The Ministry
of Finance has refused to divulge information on the amount of black money held
by Indians inside the country and abroad, claiming that it will constitute
breach of privilege of Parliament, PTI reported on Monday.
In response
to a Right to Information query by a PTI correspondent, the ministry declined
to share three reports published by the Delhi-based National Institute of
Public Finance and Policy, the National Council of Applied Economic Research,
and the Faridabad-based National Institute of Financial Management. The reports
were commissioned by the previous United Progressive Alliance government in 2011.
The ministry,
in its reply, said the government received the reports from the National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy on December 30, 2013, from the National
Council of Applied Economic Research on July 18, 2014, and from the National
Institute of Financial Management on August 21, 2014. The reports were then
submitted to the standing committee on finance on July 21 last year.
“Accordingly,
the disclosure of information would cause a breach of privilege of the
Parliament,” the ministry said in its reply. “Therefore, the information sought
is exempt from disclosure under Section 8 (1) (c) of the RTI Act.”
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