Delhi HC refuses to entertain PIL to direct authorities to discover feasibility of confiscating black cash

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea in search of course to the Centre to determine the feasibility of confiscating 100 per cent black cash and benami property and awarding life imprisonment to offenders in circumstances referring to disproportionate property, cash laundering, human and drug trafficking.

The excessive court docket famous {that a} related plea was earlier filed by the identical petitioner earlier than the Supreme Court which had permitted him to make a illustration to the Law Commission on the problem.

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad stated after withdrawing the petition from the Supreme Court, it was not correct for the excessive court docket to listen to it. “In case the Supreme Court had stated that you just go to the excessive court docket, we’d have heard you.

But there may be particular order of the Supreme Court that you just go to the Law Commission,” the bench stated. When petitioner and advocate Ashwini Upadhyay urged the court docket to tag this petition with one among his earlier pleas, the bench declined it saying, “no, very sorry”.

Thereafter, the petitioner sought to withdraw the petition saying he would method the Supreme Court. “The writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn,” the bench stated.

The plea has sought to represent an professional committee or direct the Law Commission to look at the stringent anti-corruption legal guidelines of developed nations referring to bribery, black cash, benami property, tax evasion, disproportionate property, cash laundering, profiteering, hoarding, adulteration, human and drug trafficking and black advertising and marketing and put together a complete report inside three months.

The petitioner claimed that the entire finances of the Centre, states, and native our bodies is Rs 70 lakh crore however because of huge corruption in each public division, round 20 per cent of the finances, that’s, Rs 14 lakh crore turns into black cash.

The plea submitted that the Centre and states should implement stringent anti-corruption legal guidelines to present a robust message that it’s decided to weed out corruption, black cash era, benami transactions, and cash laundering.

It submitted that the corruption severely impacts BPL households because it distorts and disrupts the general public distribution system.

The petition had arrayed as events the ministries of Home Affairs, Finance, and Law and Justice, Law Commission of India, and the Delhi authorities.