New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today (Dec 11, 2003) rejected the Opposition demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the Judeo cash-on-camera scam, saying there was no need for it and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was going into all aspects of the episode.

"There is no need for a JPC and nothing will come out by constituting it," Vajpayee told the Lok Sabha while replying to a two-day debate on his statement regarding resignation of Dilip Singh Judeo as Union Minister.

Attacking the Opposition for attempting to denigrate CBI, he said even JPC would have to look into all aspects and seek facts and information from CBI, which was already holding a preliminary enquiry into allegations of bribery.

Brushing aside the Opposition charge that the Government was adopting double standards while dealing with the cases of Judeo and those against former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, the Prime Minister said truth would be found out.

"What double standards are you talking about, what touchstones are you talking about? Don't you see Jogi peeping from behind the curtain," he said, adding there was no iota of truth that there had been delay in the Judeo probe.

PTI