Allahabad, April 17 The Allahabad High Court today dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking directions to the government of India for doing the needful with regard to the unaccounted money allegedly stashed in Swiss Banks and other"tax havens"abroad.
A
Division Bench comprising
Chief Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and
Justice Dilip Gupta, while dismissing the PIL filed by two city-based organisations People&aposs
Political Front and
Azadi Bachao Andolan, also slapped the petitioners with a cost of Rs 5,000 for"wasting the court&aposs time with frivolous litigations".
The PIL had also demanded that the correspondence BJP leader L K
Advani recently claimed to have had with the
Prime Minister in the matter be made public and that once it was ascertained who were the people to have deposited unaccounted money in the foreign banks, they be penalised in accordance with law.