Chairman of the parliamentary committee on information technology Shashi Tharoor has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over the "seizing" of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram's "highly confidential" notes related to the panel during a CBI raid, and said this constitutes a "breach" of the committee as well as the member's privilege.
Writing to Mr. Birla in his capacity as chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Tharoor raised the issue of a "serious breach of privilege" that committee member, Karti Chidambaram, was subjected to earlier this month.
Mr. Tharoor said it is distressing to note the manner in which conventions were "blatantly disregarded" during a recent investigation by the CBI, which involved a raid at Mr. Chidambaram's residence here.
