Monday, November 28 2005 14:28 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Government today (Nov 28, 2005) made it clear that it would not be possible for it to make available all documents procured by special envoy Virendra Dayal from the UN on the Volcker report in the face of a court ruling not to make public such documents during investigation.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Pachouri told the Rajya Sabha that the documents procured by Dayal were in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, which was analysing and examining them.

Once this was done, these would be handed over to Justice R S Pathak who has been appointed to probe the Volcker findings on Iraqi oil payments, he said.

Till the Justice Pathak Authority completes its work, "it may not be possible to make available these documents" as the Apex Court in the Vineet Narain case had given a judgement that agencies like CBI and others like ED were answerable to the court in the matter.

Pachouri was responding to the demand of Leader of the Opposition Jaswant Singh that government should table documents secured by Dayal to facilitate the House to have 'pointed and purposeful' discussion on Volcker report which was listed to be taken up tomorrow.

As some members persisted with the matter, Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat said the members would have enough opportunity to raise the matter during the discussion tomorrow.