TIOL-DDT 1822 · Friday, 23 March 2012 · story 6 of 6

No Coal Scam - CAG

IN a letter to the Prime Minister, the CAG clarified,

In the extant case, the details being brought out were observations which are under discussion at a very preliminary stage and do not even constitute our pre-final draft and hence are exceedingly misleading. … Pursuant to clarification provided by the Ministry in exit conferences held on 9.02.2012 and 9.03.2012, we have changed our thinking ….

In fact, it is not even our case that the unintended benefit to the allocatee is an equivalent loss to the exchequer. The leak of the initial draft causes great embarrassment as the Audit Report is still under preparation. Such leakage causes very deep anguish.

If the CAG's office leaks like a sieve, should the CAG be anguished?