The Sixth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on Wednesday allowed Securities and Exchange Board of India [ Images ] (SEBI) to quiz Satyam [ Get Quote ] Computer's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas and ex-Price Waterhouse partners S Gopalakrishan and Talluri Srinivas.

The permission was granted on a petition by market regulator SEBI.

While the interrogation of V Srinivas has already begun and will continue till afternoon, the Price Waterhouse auditors would be grilled on Thursday, in the presence of their counsels.

Satyam Computer founder Ramalinga Raju [ Images ], his brother Rama Raju, the company's former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas and the two auditors are in judicial custody in connection with the Rs 7,800-crore accounting fraud in the IT company.

Earlier, on the direction of the Supreme Court, the market regulator interrogated and recorded the statements of B Ramalinga Raju [ Images ] and his brother Rama Raju for three days from February 4 at the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad.