Rafale Documents

French plane-maker Dassault paid early Rs 110 crore in bribes to a middleman to help secure the sale of Rafale fighter jets to India and Indian agencies failed to investigate it despite access to incriminating documents, French portal Mediapart said.

A day after a French judge ordered a probe into alleged "corruption and favouritism" in the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal with India, the Congress on Sunday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over its silence on the matter.

The Centre argued the release of documents could lead to the revelation of secrets relating to space, nuclear installations, strategic defence capabilities and other intelligence resources and have a detrimental impact on the national security of the country

The government today asked for four weeks to reply to a petition calling for a review of the Supreme Court clean chit on the Rafale jet deal. The Supreme Court gave it four days, asking for a reply by Saturday. The next hearing is on Monday May 6, in the middle of the national election that will end on May 19.

Just when there was increasing apprehension about the impartiality of many of our institutions, two of them have given orders that should for a while temper the fears. Yesterday, the Supreme Court in theRafale case made a pair of very strong points in its judgement, upholding the freedom of the press to publish "secret" government documents and agr...

Daylong Congress jibes about the Supreme Court order on Rafale documents received a stunning response this evening from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr Gandhi, he said, he was suffering from the "sins of his father" - former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, during whose tenure the scandal over the purchase of Bofors howitzer guns had erupted.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit back at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today over his comments hailing the Supreme Court order on Rafale deal that's seen as a setback to the government.

Hours after the Supreme Court rejected the Centre's stand and ruled that classified documents accessed by the media can be used as evidence to consider requests to reexamine the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi crowed that his words had been vindicated.

Former union minister Arun Shourie, one of the review petitioners in the Rafale case, said today that he was delighted by the unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court dismissing Centre's "peculiar argument" on admissibility of privileged documents.

The Left parties hailed the decision of the Supreme Court allowing leaked documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of the Rafale judgement and alleged that Narendra Modi government was compromising on national security.

The Congress today praised the Supreme Court's decision allowing leaked documents to be used by petitioners seeking review of the Rafale judgement, saying skeletons in the "scam" are tumbling out and now there is "no official secrets act" to hide behind for the Modi government.

The Supreme Court today flat-out rejected the centre's argument that classified documents accessed by the media on the Rafale fighter jet deal can't be evidence.

Rafale Case Supreme Court verdict: The court has dismissed preliminary objections by the government to consider documents "stolen" from the defence ministry as evidence in the Rafale fighter jet case. It says it will fix the date for hearing review petitions on Rafale deal case.

The Supreme Court will decide today whether classified documents sourced by the media without authorisation can be considered evidence and a basis for re-examining its December verdict, which gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the deal for Rafale fighter jets. Citing internal notes of the defence ministry, a series of reports pu...

The Supreme Court will today deliver its verdict on whether classified documents sourced from the Defence Ministry by the media without authorisation can be used as "evidence" in the Rafale fighter jet case.

French plane-maker Dassault paid early Rs 110 crore in bribes to a middleman to help secure the sale of Rafale fighter jets to India and Indian agencies failed to investigate it despite access to incriminating documents, French portal Mediapart said.

A day after a French judge ordered a probe into alleged "corruption and favouritism" in the Rs 59,000-crore Rafale deal with India, the Congress on Sunday hit out at the Narendra Modi government over its silence on the matter.

The Centre argued the release of documents could lead to the revelation of secrets relating to space, nuclear installations, strategic defence capabilities and other intelligence resources and have a detrimental impact on the national security of the country

The government today asked for four weeks to reply to a petition calling for a review of the Supreme Court clean chit on the Rafale jet deal. The Supreme Court gave it four days, asking for a reply by Saturday. The next hearing is on Monday May 6, in the middle of the national election that will end on May 19.

Just when there was increasing apprehension about the impartiality of many of our institutions, two of them have given orders that should for a while temper the fears. Yesterday, the Supreme Court in theRafale case made a pair of very strong points in its judgement, upholding the freedom of the press to publish "secret" government documents and agr...

Daylong Congress jibes about the Supreme Court order on Rafale documents received a stunning response this evening from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr Gandhi, he said, he was suffering from the "sins of his father" - former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, during whose tenure the scandal over the purchase of Bofors howitzer guns had erupted.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit back at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today over his comments hailing the Supreme Court order on Rafale deal that's seen as a setback to the government.

Hours after the Supreme Court rejected the Centre's stand and ruled that classified documents accessed by the media can be used as evidence to consider requests to reexamine the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi crowed that his words had been vindicated.

Former union minister Arun Shourie, one of the review petitioners in the Rafale case, said today that he was delighted by the unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court dismissing Centre's "peculiar argument" on admissibility of privileged documents.

The Left parties hailed the decision of the Supreme Court allowing leaked documents to be relied upon by petitioners seeking review of the Rafale judgement and alleged that Narendra Modi government was compromising on national security.

The Congress today praised the Supreme Court's decision allowing leaked documents to be used by petitioners seeking review of the Rafale judgement, saying skeletons in the "scam" are tumbling out and now there is "no official secrets act" to hide behind for the Modi government.

The Supreme Court today flat-out rejected the centre's argument that classified documents accessed by the media on the Rafale fighter jet deal can't be evidence.

Rafale Case Supreme Court verdict: The court has dismissed preliminary objections by the government to consider documents "stolen" from the defence ministry as evidence in the Rafale fighter jet case. It says it will fix the date for hearing review petitions on Rafale deal case.

The Supreme Court will decide today whether classified documents sourced by the media without authorisation can be considered evidence and a basis for re-examining its December verdict, which gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government over the deal for Rafale fighter jets. Citing internal notes of the defence ministry, a series of reports pu...

The Supreme Court will today deliver its verdict on whether classified documents sourced from the Defence Ministry by the media without authorisation can be used as "evidence" in the Rafale fighter jet case.