Rafale deal: SC says it will consider listing writ petition after two weeks
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Plea urges registration of FIR for dishonest, legal breach of belief and underneath Prevention of Corruption Act
The Supreme Court on Monday stated it will consider listing after two weeks a writ petition filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma in search of registration of an FIR and an investigation underneath the Officials Secrets Act right into a French media report that France’s anti-corruption company, Agence Francaise Anticorruption (AFA), discovered plane producer Dassault Aviation paid €1 a million to an Indian firm in reference to the 2016 Rafale deal.
Mr. Sharma talked about the petition, with out explicitly referring to the small print, earlier than a Bench led by Chief Justice Sharad A. Bobde.
The petition has made Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the primary respondent, adopted by Sushen Mohan Gupta, Defsys Solutions Private Limited, Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited, the Centre and the CBI in that order.
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The petition urged the apex court docket to order the registration of an FIR underneath varied offences together with dishonest, legal breach of belief, Sections underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Official Secrets Act.
It urged the court docket to subject “appropriate writ direction for cancelling/quashing agreement of September 23, 2016 for the purchase of 36 Rafale jet fighters from Dassault France for being hit by fraud, corruption and offence under the Official Secrets Act and to recover entire advanced money with penalty and to blacklist Dassault”. Mr. Sharma stated the primary 4 respondents needs to be prosecuted.
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“To prosecute them under the supervision of this court coupled with further direction to issue appropriate writ for quashing inter-government agreement of September 2016, which was the outcome of bribe/corruption,” the petition stated.
“The September 2016 deal was signed by the Defence Ministers of India and France and called ‘Rafale deal’, in which India would pay about ₹58,000 crore or €7.8 billion for 36 off-the-shelf Dassault Rafale twin-engine fighters coupled with 15% advance payment of this cost. As per the deal, India will also get spares and weaponry, including the Meteor missile, considered one of the most advanced in the world,” the petition stated.
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