{"id":302918,"date":"2018-09-18T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302918"},"modified":"2018-09-18T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:30:55","slug":"supreme-court-adjourns-hearing-on-rafale-fighter-jet-deal-till-october-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-adjourns-hearing-on-rafale-fighter-jet-deal-till-october-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court adjourns hearing on Rafale fighter jet deal till October 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/flying-deep-inside-the-rafale-deal-controversy\/rafale\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-301573\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301573 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rafale-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-1068x582.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-771x420.jpg 771w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale-1920x1046.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rafale.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on September 18 adjourned hearing on a PIL filed by petitioner advocate ML Sharma seeking a stay on the Rafale fighter jet deal between India and France. A SC bench adjourned the matter till October 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Petitioner M L Sharma told the apex court bench that he wants to file some additional documents in the case and therefore the matter should be adjourned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SC bench comprising of justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph said, &#8220;You yourself circulated a letter seeking adjournment on the ground of ill health. Now you are saying that you want to file additional documents. We are simply adjourning the matter to October 10.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his petition, Sharma has alleged discrepancies in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France and sought a stay on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his petition advocate Sharma has said that the inter-government deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets must be quashed as it was an &#8220;outcome of corruption&#8221; and not ratified by Parliament under Article 253 (Parliament has power to make any law for implementing any inter-government agreement) of the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on September 18 adjourned hearing on a PIL filed by petitioner advocate ML Sharma seeking a stay on the Rafale fighter jet deal between India and France. A SC bench adjourned the matter till October 10. Petitioner M L Sharma told the apex court bench that he wants to file some additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4322,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302922,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302918\/revisions\/302922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}