The CBI will examine Tata Sons' former chairman Ratan Tata and its current chief Cyrus Mistry in connection with the agency's ongoing preliminary inquiries related to intercepted communications of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
CBI sources said on Thursday the agency would seek clarifications from Tata and Mistry as the agency has named Tata group in two inquiries registered by it arising out of intercepted telephonic calls of Radia. The sources said the clarifications would be sought soon.
"We don't have any information on this. We do not know about this," a Tata Sons spokesperson said when asked to comment on the CBI move.
The CBI's Chennai branch is investigating the supply of low floor buses by Tata Motors to the Tamil Nadu government under the Centre's Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme.
The allotment of iron ore mines at Ankua, Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, to Tata Steel too is being looked into.
Although the agency has so far not found any criminality in its inquiries, it will seek clarification from Tata and Mistry over some issues regarding tapped conversations where references were made about these deals.
A television journalist and a senior executive of a leading newspaper group have already been examined by the agency. Besides, executives of Reliance, Unitech and Tata Motors too have been examined.
CBI has registered 14 preliminary inquiries into issues of alleged corruption arising in the communications of Radia intercepted by the Income Tax department.
Last year, a Supreme Court bench headed by justice GS Singhvi identified 23 issues that were framed by an apex court-appointed team on the analysis of the tapped conversations of Radia with bureaucrats, politicians, corporate tycoons and scribes.
The court has also referred one of the issues to the chief vigilance officer of the department of mines for investigation and another to the chief justice of India.
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