A bench of Chief Justice Rajan Gogoi, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice KM Joseph will pronounce judgement on Centre’s preliminary objection that privileged documents can’t be relied on for re-examining Rafale decision.
“Dear PM, scared of debating me on corruption? I can make it easier for you. Let’s go open book, so you can prepare: 1. RAFALE+Anil Ambani, 2. Nirav Modi, 3. Amit Shah+Demonetisation,”
The hearing is currently underway before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph.
The Ministry of Defence said an internal enquiry commenced on February 28 and is in progress over the leakage of sensitive documents and it is of "utmost concern" to find out where the leakage took place.
Things would have been different if WC Abhinandan was flying Rafale instead of MiG gighter jet, says PM Modi
If the IAF had the Rafale today, the situation would have been different, says PM Modi
Modi took on the opposition over the issue of air strike, saying while the entire world stood behind India in its fight against terror, some parties in the country were questioning and raising doubts.
An apex court bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L N Rao and Sanjiv Khanna, said four applications or petitions have been filed in the Rafale matter and one of them is still lying with the registry on account of defect.
Rafale combat aircraft performs at the Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru
Rafale jets to showcase its capabilities at Aero India 2019. Earlier the two Surya Kiran aircraft had crashed during Aero Show prepration in Bengaluru
Lawyers file petitions in the apex court registry and instead of removing the defects of the pleas they go to media for wide publicity, the top court bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said.
Anil Ambani told the top court that with the failure of its assets sale deal with elder brother Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio his company has entered insolvency proceedings and is not in control of the funds.
The only reason for the new deal is to give Rs 30,000 crore to industrialist Anil Ambani, the Congress chief alleged.
Stating that the contagion effect of falsehood is fairly large, Jaitley said the lies spread by the Congress have spread to other colleagues in the "Mahajhootbandhan".
"The Prime Minister is scared of JPC. Since you are not heeding to the demand of JPC, we are staging a walkout," Kharge said as his party staged a walkout.
A day before the end of the present Lok Sabha session, the CAG report tabled on Tuesday. This is the last session of the 16th Lok Sabha as the general elections are due in April-May.
Dismissing Gandhi's allegations, Union Law Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said he was "lying shamelessly" on the fighter jet deal and has got "Rafale phobia".
Rahul also accused Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of lying in this matter.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has been intensifying attack on PM Modi, accusing him of corruption in the multi- billion dollar jet deal with a French company.
The number is projected to rise to 30 by 2027, with four more squadrons of LCA Tejas. The contract for these 83 LCA Tejas Mark1A is yet to be signed between the IAF and HAL, it further said.
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