Supreme Court has dismissed the PIL seeking fresh probe into the Rafale deal. why over here

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit on Monday, after hearing the plea of ​​petitioner ML Sharma, said that no case for interference of this court was made out and the Supreme Court initially dismissed the petition, later advocate ML Sharma. Sharma requested that the report stated that he wanted to withdraw the petition, considering the prayer, the court later allowed him to withdraw the case.

It is pertinent to note that the petitioner was seeking a probe into new revelations by a French media portal that the aircraft manufacturer, Dassault Aviation had paid 1 million Euros to Sushen Gupta, a controversial Indian middleman. Therefore, in his petition, Advocate ML Sharma sought a direction to reconsider the investigation and also to register cases under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, even as the petitioner referred the matter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. was made a party, the report said. Additionally, it said the agreement to purchase the fighter jets from Dassault Aviation was “a result of corruption”.

This development comes after the November 2019 verdict when a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by the then Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi dismissed petitions seeking review of the December 14, 2018 verdict was. , The review petitioners, including former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan, had alleged that the government had withheld important facts and misled the Supreme Court to give a favorable verdict. The report said that he had sought registration of an FIR and a CBI inquiry on his complaint against the Rafale purchase.

(with inputs from ANI)

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