NEW DELHI: Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani expressed his disappointment over delays in introducing a black money law that he had mooted and the government’s failure to get back funds illegally stashed overseas during a hearing on the matter in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.Jethmalani, formerly with the Bharatiya Janata Party, was instrumental in filing a public interest litigation on the issue that caused much embarrassment to the previous UPA government . The BJP, which heads the current government, had promised to recover black money held abroad in the run-up to the elections and even set up a special investigation team (SIT) to inquire into this as directed by the top court.But no money has been recovered yet, Jethmalani’s lawyer Anil Divan told the bench comprising chief justice of India HL Dattu and justices Madan B Lokur and AK Sikri.“Not a single rupee has been brought back in the last six months,” Divan said. “There might have been some attachment, raid here and there.”Jethmalani said the government’s response on the issue was a “total disappointment”. “I am not recovering my money, but the nation’s money. Till a legislation is passed, not a farthing will come,” he said. “I drafted a law and sent a copy to the Prime Minister. It has been passed on to the finance ministry. Are they in favour of this legislation? If they don’t want to do it, they should let it be known. Otherwise, I will go to the real sovereign — the people.”The chief justice was clear on the issue of the government sharing the names of those holding such money abroad with the public — a demand made by lawyer Prashant Bhushan . “We are interested in recovering the black money and not in the names,” Dattu told Bhushan, when he argued that the government should make public the names of those who had admitted to holding such accounts abroad and had been allowed to pay taxes and penalties on it.