Supreme Court dismisses Govt. 'preliminary objections' on Rafale deals
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the Centre's ‘preliminary objections’, allowing the admissibility of three documents in the Rafale deal in re-examining the review petition filed against its December 14 judgment, giving a clean chit to the NDA government in the purchase of 36 fully-loaded Rafale jets from Dassault under an Indo-French inter-governmental agreement.
The Rafale Deal order was pronounced by a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Krishan Kaul and KM Joseph. Petitioners Prashant Bhushan, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie want the top court to examine articles published in The Hindu and order a CBI probe into the matter, but the Centre has opposed it on the grounds that the documents were photocopied without due permission.
Social activist and lawyer Prashant Bhushan and former Union Minister Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha had sought review of the judgment alleging massive favouritism and irregularities in giving away the deal to a defence company owned by Anil Ambani. Prashant Bhushan had contended the Centre's objections were ‘mala fide and totally untenable arguments’ and that it couldn't claim ‘privilege’ over the published documents which are in public domain.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala recently tweeted saying: "Modiji, you can run and lie as much as you want, but sooner or later the truth comes out. The skeletons in Rafale Scam are tumbling out one by one. And now there is 'no official secrets act' to hide behind."
Modiji, you can run and lie as much as you want,
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) April 10, 2019
But sooner or later the truth comes out.
The skeletons in #RafaleScam are tumbling out one by one.
And now there is ‘no official secrets act’ to hide behind.
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