The parliament's Public Accounts Committee summoned the station manager of Radio Sagarmatha seeking disclosure of the source of a news broadcast by the station sometime ago. The public radio station had reported that informants from Nepal Bank Limited had told its reporters that three PAC members had approached the bank to bargain for concessions because they had power to influence the pace and intensity of an ongoing PAC investigation on NBL loans. Talking to us, Station Manager Prateek Bhandari said he did appear before the PAC but only to stand by the story. He also said he refused to disclose anything to the Committee, citing Clause 2(5) of the Journalists' Code of Conduct formulated by the Press Council, which protects the sanctity of news sources. The three PAC members named as having contacted bank officials are Birendra Kanaudia (Nepali Congress), Birodh Khatiwada (UML) and Hridayesh Tripathi (Nepal Sadbhavana Party).