Devender Mukhiya, summoned for the second time for his re-examination, admitted before Special Judge Ajit Bharihoke that he had gone to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in Parliament on February 21, 1997 at the instance of complainant Ravinder Kumar but asserted nobody asked him to turn hostile.

On Monday, while arguing on behalf of Kumar for placing certain documents on record, advocate P N Lekhi had quoted an affidavit filed by Mukhiya in the Delhi High Court saying a person in presence of former Union minister C M Ibrahim and former CBI Director Joginder Singh at the PMO had asked him to retract his statement during recording of evidence.

When CBI counsel R M Tiwary confronted Mukhiya with the affidavit and certain documents bearing his handwritings,the latter accused Kumar, Lekhi and another person of taking his signatures on blank papers for obtaining necessary orders from the court for his security.

Former premier P V Narasimha Rao, former Union ministers Buta Singh, Ajit Singh, Capt Satish Sharma, former Haryana and Karnataka chief ministers Bhajan Lal and M Veerappa Moily are among 11 accused facing trial for allegedly bribing some MPs to buy their support during the no-confidence motion against the then government in Lok Sabha in July 1993.