GUWAHATI: In an interesting update on the Rafale deal, the government told the Supreme Court on March 6 that the documents related to the Rafale aircraft deal have been stolen from the defence ministry and the petitioners that are seeking a review of its verdict dismissed all pleas against the purchase of the jets relied upon those documents.
According to a report by TOI, a three-judge bench including Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S.K. Kaul and K.M. Joseph began the open court hearing during which former Union ministers, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan, who had jointly filed the petition had alleged that the Centre suppressed critical facts when the apex court had decided to dismiss the batch of PILs against the Rafale deal in December last year.
When advocate Bhushan had referred to an article written by N Ram, a senior journalist, attorney general K.K. Venugopal opposed it, citing that his write-ups were based on stolen documents and that an investigation is ongoing in the matter.