The Supreme Court on Monday directed the CBI to file an affidavit giving details of the NGOs registered with the various authorities and indicate whether they were filing the balance sheets regularly. A Bench of Justices H.L. Dattu and M.Y. Eqbal gave this direction on a PIL petition filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma for a direction to the CBI to probe the ‘irregularities’ in Anna Hazare’s Hind Swaraj Trust. The Bench said that it was expanding the scope to cover all NGOs so that the CBI could find out the source of income. It directed the matter to be listed after eight weeks.
Mr. Sharma said the trust was started with a capital of just Rs. 500 and received Rs. 45 lakh from the Centre in 1994-95.
He asked: “How could a trust with not more than Rs. 500 capital when it was registered on February 21, 1995, be spending Rs. 45 lakh in 1994-95?”
