A parliamentary panel on Thursday questioned top Oil Ministry officials on reported violation of contract by Reliance Industries, RIL, for Krishna Godavari basin field.

Oil Secretary G C Chaturvedi and Director General Hydrocarbon S K Srivastava appeared before the Public Accounts Committee, headed by M M Joshi, to answer issues raised by CAG audit of RIL's eastern offshore KG-D6 gas block.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report tabled in Parliament had criticised the ministry and DGH for allowing RIL to retain the entire KG-D6 block in contravention to the signed Production Sharing Contract (PSC).