Senior lawyer and petitioner Ram Jethmalani on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of shielding the corporates accused of laundering black money abroad.

Calling it a continuation of the UPA regime's policy, Jethmalani said some ministers in the Modi government are protecting themselves and their corporate friends stashing money in Swiss banks.

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

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

In a landmark order in 2011, the Supreme Court had said that all details of the alleged black money stashed abroad must be made public. The apex court said it will now hear the Centre's application on October 28.





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