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Prashant Bhushan, one of the petitioners who had moved the Supreme court with a plea for a direction to the CBI to register FIR for alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal, on Friday termed the top court's judgment 'wrong'.
Prashant Bhushan, one of the petitioners who had moved the Supreme court with a plea for a direction to the CBI to register FIR for alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal, on Friday termed the top court's judgment 'wrong'.
The apex court dismissed pleas seeking court-monitored probe into India's multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal with France and said that there is no occasion to doubt decision-making process in fighter-jet deal.
"In our opinion the Supreme Court judgment is totally wrong, the campaign will certainly not drop and we will decide if we will file a review petition," said Bhushan.
After the three petitions were filed, former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie alongwith activist advocate Prashant Bhushan had moved the apex court with a plea
Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the matter was crystal clear from the beginning. "We have been saying that the allegations leveled by Congress were baseless and to gain political mileage," he said.
Rejecting the pleas, the court said that they can't compel the government to purchase 126 aircrafts and its not proper for the court to examine each aspect of this case. "It isn't a job of court to compare pricing details."
The Rafale fighter is a twin-engine Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) manufactured by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation. India signed an agreement with France for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft in a fly-away condition as part of the upgrading process of the Indian Air Force equipment.
Earlier, the Centre has submitted a 14-page document titled "Details of the steps in the decision-making process leading to the award of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft order" to the Supreme Court.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly alleged a mega scam in the Rafale fighter jet deal and accused the Modi government of favouring a private company in offset contract related to the Rs 58,000-crore defence agreement with Paris.
The government has vehemently denied Gandhi's charges.
Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier's has claimed no wrong-doing in the Rs 58,000 crore deal asserting it was a clean deal. Trappier also claimed his company chose Reliance as an offset partner.
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