New Delhi: Reacting to a TOI report on the conflict of interest of Central Pollution Control Board chairman, environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan has said she will inquire into the facts. On Thursday, TOI had reported the attempt by CPCB chairman S P Gautum to cash in on a patent he held privately by doing a revenue sharing deal with the apex government authority and then passing a directive forcing leather industry to buy the untested technology. Natarajan told TOI, “I have read the news and will inquire into the facts behind the case.” It has also emerged that Congress MP from Unnao in UP, Annu Tandon, had lobbied for the costly and untested device – lyophilliser – to be deployed and cleared by the government. When contacted, she said, “I was troubled by the water pollution in Unnao and contacted the CPCB chairman who told me that this technology had been developed.”