India, March 18 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India why details of the bank accounts of deceased persons could not be disclosed to heirs, and said the Government must come up with a policy on the issue.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a PIL filed by journalist Sucheta Dalal, seeking a direction to set up a mechanism to inform the legal heirs of deceased depositors about the unclaimed deposits lying dormant in bank accounts.

"Suppose a man has got 10 different accounts in different countries, he dies intestate, how do his heirs get the details? He may not have done the KYC...

"It's not a question of policy; we are not saying that the transfer is illegal. What we ar...