New Delhi: The Supreme Court today granted three more months to CBI to provide details about all registered NGOs in the country and whether they file balance sheets before the authority.
A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu granted time after the agency submitted that all the states have not provided information regarding NGOs and it needs more time to compile the details.
Meanwhile, the agency submitted that most of the NGOs are not filing IT returns.
It said that Gujarat and Tamil Nadu have not given information about the NGOs working in their states and Andhra Pradesh, Bihar , Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha and Maharastra provided only partial inputs.
NGOs have come under judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court on September 2 asking the CBI to provide details about such registered organisations and their financial statements on a PIL seeking probe into alleged embezzling of funds.
The apex court had expanded the scope of the PIL which was filed in 2011 against an NGO, Hind Swaraj Trust, run by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare.
In September, it had directed the agency to file within six weeks the names of all the registered NGOs and to indicate in its affidavit as to whether they have filed their balance sheets including income-expenditure statements before the authority before whom they are registered.
Earlier, the agency had expressed difficulty in probing and collecting information on NGOs and had pleaded that the task be handed over to states, but the plea was summarily rejected by the court which directed the agency to comply with its order.
"If CBI can probe murder cases then why not probe against NGOs? You can do so many things, you do it also," the bench had said.
A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu granted time after the agency submitted that all the states have not provided information regarding NGOs and it needs more time to compile the details.
Meanwhile, the agency submitted that most of the NGOs are not filing IT returns.
NGOs have come under judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court on September 2 asking the CBI to provide details about such registered organisations and their financial statements on a PIL seeking probe into alleged embezzling of funds.
Advertisement
In September, it had directed the agency to file within six weeks the names of all the registered NGOs and to indicate in its affidavit as to whether they have filed their balance sheets including income-expenditure statements before the authority before whom they are registered.
Advertisement
"If CBI can probe murder cases then why not probe against NGOs? You can do so many things, you do it also," the bench had said.
Advertisement
COMMENTS
Advertisement
"Fashion Parade Going On?" Chief Justice Pulls Up Lawyer Without Neckband "What Is This...": Supreme Court Junks Bilkis Bano Convicts' Bail Pleas Restrictive Statutory Provisions Don't Prevent Bail: Supreme Court Massive Worldwide Microsoft Outage: Flights, Markets, Stock Exchange Down CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor: The Culprit Behind World's Biggest IT Outage "Fix Deployed": CEO Of Firm Behind Global Microsoft Outage Microsoft Outage "Affecting IT Operations" Paris Olympics Organisers In Jaw-Dropping Video, 12-Foot King Cobra Rescued And Released In Karnataka Biden Or Trump, It's Still A Long Wait For Indian 'Dreamers' In US Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.