The three-judge bench comprising of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, SK Kaul and KM Joseph in a unanimous judgement in the Supreme Court on 14th November dismissed all review petitions that seek court-monitored criminal probe in the Rafale deal case.
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The court said that there are no grounds for an FIR to be registered.
SC also rejected a plea that the inter-government agreement (IGA) had been invoked out of turn.
SC closed a contempt case with a warning against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was facing the trial over his ‘chowkidar chor hai’ comment during the Lok Sabha campaign.
‘Clarification on Offset Policy’, makes it clear that the government has no role in not giving orders to HAL.
Review petitions were filed by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
Curiopedia
Rafale deal controversy is a political controversy in India related to the purchase of 36 multirole fighter aircraft for a price estimated at €7.8 billion by the Defence Ministry of India from France’s Dassault Aviation. The origin of the deal lies in the Indian MRCA competition, a multi-billion dollar contract to supply 126 Rafale aircrafts to the Indian Air Force (IAF). More Info
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