PNB fraud: With leaders under lens, Opposition parties wary of JPC probe

Leaders of several of the opposition parties are being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation

Opposition parties and their leaders spoke at cross-purposes on Wednesday regarding strategy inside Parliament on the issue of bank frauds and whether to demand a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe when the Budget session resumes on March 5.

The Trinamool Congress said a JPC probe would serve no purpose. It did not suggest an alternative course. Its leader, Derek O’Brien, said previous JPCs to probe financial frauds or scams did not yield results.

The Left parties demanded a JPC probe, on the lines of those into the Harshad Mehta case of 1992 and the Ketan Parekh one of 2001. Communist Party of