Rafale Petitioners

Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan Friday requested the Supreme Court to set aside its earlier verdict that dismissed their petition for criminal investigation into the Rafale fighter jet deal case.

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 will today resume hearing petitions calling for a review of its Rafale case judgement from December that said there was no reason to doubt the decision-making process amid Congress allegations of corruption in the 2016 jet deal. The top court had in December dismissed petitions alleging that the government had gone for an overpric...

The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...

Two days after claiming in Supreme Court that Rafale documents were "stolen" from the Defence Ministry, the government's top lawyer on Friday clarified to news agency PTI that what he meant was petitioners used "photocopies of the original" papers deemed secret by the government.

While pointing out that the Indian Air Force was never consulted before announcing the 59,000-crore Rafale fighter jet deal with France in 2015 -- as revealed in the document shared by the government with petitioners demanding a probe into the deal -- Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has admitted to "theft" ...

Confronting relentless opposition attacks over the Rafale deal, the government today shared details of how it decided to buy 36 fighter jets from France's Dassault at Rs 59,000 crore, in a document submitted to the Supreme Court and petitioners who have asked for an investigation into the deal.

Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan Friday requested the Supreme Court to set aside its earlier verdict that dismissed their petition for criminal investigation into the Rafale fighter jet deal case.

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 will today resume hearing petitions calling for a review of its Rafale case judgement from December that said there was no reason to doubt the decision-making process amid Congress allegations of corruption in the 2016 jet deal. The top court had in December dismissed petitions alleging that the government had gone for an overpric...

The action of petitioners who wanted a review of the verdict in the Rafale case brought classified documents into public domain, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. It put national security at risk and such unauthorised photocopying of secret documents amounts to theft, the Centre said, targeting The Hindu newspaper over its investigative stor...

Two days after claiming in Supreme Court that Rafale documents were "stolen" from the Defence Ministry, the government's top lawyer on Friday clarified to news agency PTI that what he meant was petitioners used "photocopies of the original" papers deemed secret by the government.

While pointing out that the Indian Air Force was never consulted before announcing the 59,000-crore Rafale fighter jet deal with France in 2015 -- as revealed in the document shared by the government with petitioners demanding a probe into the deal -- Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has admitted to "theft" ...

Confronting relentless opposition attacks over the Rafale deal, the government today shared details of how it decided to buy 36 fighter jets from France's Dassault at Rs 59,000 crore, in a document submitted to the Supreme Court and petitioners who have asked for an investigation into the deal.