The Privileges Committee of the Rajya Sabha has summoned lawyer Prashant Bhushan to appear before it on February 10 in connection with a breach of privilege notice against him for the alleged prematur
The Privileges Committee of the Rajya Sabha has summoned lawyer Prashant Bhushan to appear before it on February 10 in connection with a breach of privilege notice against him for the alleged premature disclosure of a CAG report on allocation of D6-Block in K.G. Basin.
In a communication to Mr Bhushan, a Supreme Court lawyer and deputy director of the Rajya Sabha Vijay Kumar has asked him to appear in person before the Committee of Privileges, headed by Congress MP P.J. Kurien.
The committee, which had met on October 6 last year, to discuss the matter decided to summon him to hear his defence.
A privilege notice was given by JD-U MP K.C. Tyagi in this matter on July 1, 2014.
In the letter to Mr Bhushan, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat says “the Committee of Privileges is presently seized of a matter of breach of privilege of the House arising out of the alleged premature disclosure of a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India pertaining to the allocation of D6-Block in K.G. Basin to the Reliance Group in the press before the same was laid on the table of the House”.
