The following Order of the Court was delivered: section RATNAVEL PANDIAN, J. A brief resume of the facts which has given rise to the above appeals and Writ Petition would be necesSary to appreciate the unsavorous controver sies created by way of public interest litigations, though 0we have decided to give only our conclusions now and the detailed reasons later in order to avoid any delay in this matter for the reasons,, namely, (1) in the application for direction filed by the Union of India through C.B.I. on 12.7.91 it is submitted that "the Swiss authorities would remove the blocking order on 31.8.91 and the account holders would withdraw the large funds, running into millions of dollars (equivalent to crores of rupees)" and 757 prayed that the judgment may be pronounced by the end of August 1991 lest miscarriage of justice would be caused, and (2) that the learned 'Additional SoliCitor General, Mr. Altar Ahmed appearing on behalf of the Union of India and CBI on 10.8.91 reaffirmed the above statement of the Union of India and requested that the C.B.I. should be allowed to proceed with the investigation without any interruption or ' hin drance so that the investigation may be speeded up thereby meaning that the wheels of investigation already started moving on, should be permitted to be proceeded with unfet tered and untrammelled so that the valuable evidence may be obtained from the Swiss Bank through their authorities without further loss of time, otherwise the account.