Congress welcomes Volcker probe report

The Congress party on Thursday hailed the Justice Pathak committee report, which indicted former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh and his legislator son Jagat Singh in the United Nations oil-for-food scam and exonerated the party, indicating that action would follow after studying the findings.

"The report is there for anyone to see. It is a very high-powered commission chaired by a former Chief Justice of India [ Images ], which went into the facts and records and said what it has to say," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told PTI in New Delhi [ Images ].

As far as individuals are concerned, he remarked: "Let us wait to study the report and then decide on the individual course of action."

The copy of the 110-page report, including 22 pages of annexures, was handed over to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] by Justice R S Pathak.