The Supreme Court has refused to open the sealed envelope containing the list of 627 people having illegal accounts in foreign banks. The list was submitted by the government this morning.

The apex court said only SIT chairman and vice chairman can open the seal and asked the SIT to submit status report of its probe by November-end. It allowed Centre to put forth its grievances regarding various treaties with foreign countries before SIT.

Earlier the apex court had directed the Centre to submit all the names of Indian account holders in foreign banks by today.
The court has been monitoring the investigations into black money since 2009. In 2011, the court had asked for complete disclosure of information on Indians holding black money abroad.