The three filed a petition in the apex court seeking an FIR in the Rafale deal issue. They have alleged 'criminal misconduct' by high public functionaries. (File Photo/PTI)
Taking their fight against the Modi government over the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal with France to the next level, former Union minsters Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court.
The three filed a petition in the apex court seeking an FIR in the Rafale deal issue. They have alleged 'criminal misconduct' by high public functionaries.
In their plea, Sinha, Shourie and Prashant have also sought a direction to the CBI to investigate the offences mentioned in their complaint in a 'time-bound' manner and submit periodic status reports to the apex court.
The two former minister and the noted lawyer had met the then CBI director Alok Kumar Verma on October 4 and filed a complaint regarding the jet deal. Verma was directed by the Centre to proceed on leave late on Tuesday night in the wake of feud with his second-in-command in the agency Rakesh Asthana.
The petition by the trio came two weeks after the Supreme Court had on October 10 asked the Centre to provide details of the decision making process in the Rafale deal with France in a sealed cover by October 29.
It had clarified that it does not want information on pricing and technical particulars. The court's order had come on two PILs filed by advocates ML Sharma and Vineet Dhanda.
(With inputs from PTI)
