The Board of ONGC, led by its vocal independent directors and government nominee, had forced the firm's management to take legal recourse that has now led to a damning finding that Rs 11,000 crore worth of its natural gas had flowed to neighbouring block of Reliance Industries. It all started in July 2013 when a review of the firm's eastern offshore oil and gas campaign by the just appointed Director (Exploration) Narendra Kumar Verma led to suspicion that ONGC's Krishna Godavari basin block KG-DWN-98/2 and Godavari-PML are connected with adjoining KG-D6 block of RIL. Immediately after the review, Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) wrote to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) seeking data of RIL block, sources with direct knowledge of the development said. Not much moved on the ONGC request for next few months. When in March 2014, Dinesh K Sarraf took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC, he decided to inform the Board of the possible dispute.