{"id":303970,"date":"2018-10-10T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303970"},"modified":"2018-10-10T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T07:38:09","slug":"sc-seeks-details-of-decision-making-process-on-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-seeks-details-of-decision-making-process-on-rafale-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks details of decision-making process on Rafale deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-1.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to provide details of the decision-making process in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France in a sealed cover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, also made it clear that the information sought was not related to pricing or suitability of the jets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court, however, did not issue a notice to the government and made it clear that the court isn&#8217;t taking into account arguments made by the petitioner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court sought information from the the government on the decision making process in the deal in a sealed cover by October 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court was hearing various petitions seeking directions, which includes asking the Centre to reveal details of the Rafale deal and the comparative prices during the UPA and NDA rule in a sealed cover to the apex court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deal was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then French president Francois Hollande in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to provide details of the decision-making process in the Rafale fighter jet deal with France in a sealed cover. The bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, also made it clear that the information sought was not related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5498,1776,574,4051,5459,4250,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303970"}],"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=303970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303972,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303970\/revisions\/303972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}