The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament cannot take suo motu notice of any Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, chairman K.V. Thomas said on Tuesday.

According to Prof. Thomas, the PAC would have to wait for one of the two Houses of Parliament to refer the report to his committee.

He was responding to questions on whether the PAC would look into CAG naming Union Minister Nitin Gadkari as one of the “promoters and/or directors” of Purti Sakhar Karkhana Ltd, a company reportedly sanctioned a loan of Rs. 84.12 crore by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency in violation of guidelines.