{"id":305528,"date":"2018-11-14T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305528"},"modified":"2018-11-14T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:28:49","slug":"supreme-court-reserves-order-on-rafale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-reserves-order-on-rafale\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court reserves order on Rafale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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=\"466\" height=\"272\" 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: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a batch of pleas seeking a probe into the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After hearing the arguments of the petitioners and Attorney General KK venugopal, A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi said that it will deliver the verdict later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Centre had handed over, in a sealed cover, one set of documents to the Supreme Court containing details of the pricing of the fighter aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the price of the Rafale aircraft, Prashant Bhushan said that the government was hiding behind\u00a0the secrecy clause of the agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Venugopal defended the Narendra Modi government&#8217;s decision citing national security concerns and told a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that these matters are for the experts to deal with and &#8220;we have been saying that even Parliament has not been told about the complete cost of jets&#8221;,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench, also comprising justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, said any discussion on pricing of the Rafale fighter jets can only take place if the facts on the deal are allowed to come in the public domain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe decision we need to take is whether to bring the fact on pricing in public domain or not,\u201d the bench said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Venugopal admitted that there was no sovereign guarantee by the French government backing the deal obligating it to take the responsibility in case of default in delivery of the jets. However, he added that there\u00a0is a letter of comfort by France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a batch of pleas seeking a probe into the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. After hearing the arguments of the petitioners and Attorney General KK venugopal, A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi said that it will deliver the verdict later. 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