Members with corporate interest will not attend meet: JPC chief

New Delhi, May 15: MEMBERS of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), probing the stock market scam, who have a personal, pecuniary or direct interest in companies which are to be examined, will not be attending the related meetings, JPC Chairman Prakash Mani Tripathi said here on Tuesday.

“The concerned members would be required to inform the committee,” he said, adding one of the members, Amar Singh of the Samajwadi party, has already declared his interests in ABCL and four other companies. “We have to decide whether these companies fall within the gamut of the JPC probe,” Mr Tripathi said at the end of the second day of the probe. “The basic guidelines state that members will have to make it clear to JPC their interest in any company, which would be made known to the Lok Sabha Speaker through the JPC Chairman,” Mr Tripathi said. (PTI)