PAC to meet on Apr 28 to adopt report on 2G scam

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of sharp divisions within it, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee ( PAC) will be meeting on April 28 with an intention of adopting a report on 2G spectrum scam to be submitted before its term ends two days later.

Sources said the meeting of the 22-member committee has been convened on April 28 to discuss and possibly take up adoption of the report on 2G, a move being pressed by its Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi.

"Once the report is adopted either unanimously or through majority, the Chairman has the right to present it to the Speaker if Parliament is not in session...it could be done before or on April 30 also," the sources said.

The PAC has been a divided house during the last two meetings with members from the ruling Congress and DMK opposing pursuance of the case when JPC has already been formed and the matter was being probed by the CBI and monitored by the Supreme Court.

The divisions scuttled the efforts to summon the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary T K A Nair, Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekar and Attorney General G E Vahanvati.

The Committee had then sent written questions to all the three and they have since responded.