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The Union government on Friday filed an application in the Supreme Court, saying it cannot disclose details of foreign accounts held by Indians which are governed by bilateral double taxation avoidance treaties.

Making this application, Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi informed a three-judge Bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justices Madan B. Lokur and A.K. Sikri that the government wanted modification of the orders passed in May 2014, directing the Centre to disclose to Ram Jethmalani, the petitioner, the names of persons who had stashed away money in German banks.

Jethmalani said such a plea could be made only by crooks who have illegally parked their ill-gotten money abroad and not by a democratically elected government.

The Congress accused the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of double standards as the BJP had made black money an issue during the Lok Sabha poll campaign. Party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said the government’s stand was basically what the former Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, had taken.

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