Volcker probe: Pathak asks for another 6 months

Government sources said the terms of reference would remain the same: to probe the references pertaining to two specific contracts where beneficiaries have been listed as K. Natwar Singh and Congress party.

The power conferred on the Authority provides for tabling of the report together with the action taken in Parliament within six months and it will have powers of Civil Court for summoning witnesses, documents and receiving evidence.

Senior counsel Raju Ramachandran, T R Andhiyarijuna and Dipankar Gupta are commission8217;s lawyers.

The commission will also probe whether 8220;any Indian entity or individual received any money or other consideration from, or paid any money or other consideration to, any Government, agency, company, firm or individual in connection with the purported transaction in the UN oil-for-food programme, pertaining to M/9/54 and M/10/57 contracts.8221;