New Delhi,
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to furnish the details of a probe against lawmakers whose income shot up manifold within a short span of time.

A Bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar — which expressed strong displeasure over the government not sharing with it details of a probe being conducted by the Central Board of Direct Taxex (CBDT) against politicians — said it must place a fresh affidavit before it by 10.30 am on September 12.

“The affidavit you have filed is not even worth the piece of paper it’s written on… When an affidavit was placed, all information about any inquiry going on should be placed,” the Bench said.

“The information in the CBDT affidavit is not complete. Is this the attitude of the Government of India? What have you done till now?” asked the Bench, which is hearing a PIL filed by Lok Prahari, an NGO, on the disclosure of sources of income by the candidates when they file their nominations for elections.

While filing their nomination papers, candidates were disclosing their assets, assets of their spouse, children and other dependents, but they do not reveal the sources of income, SN Shukla of Lok Prahari contended.

According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) that works for electoral reforms, assets of four current Lok Sabha MPs have increased 12 times while 22 others declared a five-fold increase.

A newly elected Rajya Sabha MP declared an asset growth of over 21 times since his last affidavit.