Modi Govt. must respond in 4 days to Supreme Court on Rafale deal |
In a petition calling for a review of the Supreme Court clean chit on the Rafale jet deal, the BJP led Government had asked the apex court for four weeks time to file the reply. The Supreme Court gave it four days, asking for a reply by Saturday. The bench will next hear the case on Monday amidst the national election that will end on May 19. In the previous hearing on April 10th the top court had rejected the centre`s argument that classified documents accessed by the media on the Rafale fighter jet deal can`t be evidence. The court had said it would examine the secret documents while considering petitions asking for a review of its order giving the government a clean chit on the deal that the opposition alleges was corrupt. The judges unanimously dismissed the centre`s objections to considering documents leaked from the defence ministry as evidence and said they would go ahead with the hearing of review petitions, which would be decided on merit. This meant classified documents sourced by the media without authorisation can be considered by the court. Pointing to the documents, petitioners had called for a review of the December verdict in which the court had dismissed petitions challenging the deal for 36 Rafale jets.
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