Supreme Court today said some progress has been made by SIT which has initiated steps for bringing back black money stashed away by Indian citizens in foreign banks. The apex court, however, turned down the plea of the petitioner and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani, for allowing him to go through the contents of the report.

The Supreme court also asked the Centre to respond to the communication of German authorities to Jethmalani after he had written to them alleging that name of a former Indian Prime Minister had cropped up among the list of people who had parked their black money in banks there.

It asked Jethmalani to hand over the three letters addressed by him to German authorities to Additional Solicitor General N K Kaul, who will take instructions from competent authorities for making statement on the next date of hearing on November 11. The bench said, it was asking the SIT to proceed in the next two months with the task entrusted by the apex court.