Black money cases: Income Tax department forms lawyer teams for prosecution

The Income Tax department has initiated a special country-wide exercise to engage a battery of lawyers for fighting black money cases and filing prosecution in a host of other tax evasion cases.Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his white paper on black money tabled during the recently concluded Parliament session, had said that "to facilitate the launch of prosecution in cases of evasion of taxes and speedy trial and early conclusion, provisions for constitution of special courts, summons trials, and appointment of public prosecutors have been included" as part of the multi-pronged strategy to combat the menace.