Black money: #PreneetKaur, ex-UPA minister, figures among 627 names submitted to SC

Former minister of state for external affairs in the UPA regime, Preneet Kaur, figures in the list of 627 names of Indians holding accounts in foreign banks, which was submitted by the Centre to the Supreme Court.

Kaur, wife of former Punjab CM and Congress’s deputy leader in Lok Sabha Amarinder Singh, recently denied having a Swiss account. “I can confirm receiving such (income tax) notice in 2011, and having replied to it, wherein I have strongly denied any such allegations. In keeping with my reply to the I-T department, I would like to state that I never have had, and do not have any bank account(s) overseas in my name with any foreign bank.”