The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL looking for to order a probe into the Rafale fighter jet buy deal.
A bench of Justices UU Lalit and S Ravindra Bhat stated, “Having perused the facts and circumstances of the case on record, in our view, no case is made out in Article 32 of the Constitution to exercise the jurisdiction of this court”. .
Advocate ML Sharma instructed the bench that he was limiting his plea to the French investigator’s request to summon the paperwork. “I don’t have that document… so the rule of law has to be applied to quash the whole contract. It’s a serious matter. If that document comes, the evidence comes before this court.”
The bench initially stated it was dismissing the petition. Subsequently, Sharma urged the apex courtroom to permit him to withdraw it. The Supreme Court accepted his request.
The lawyer stated that he had additionally lodged a grievance with the CBI. The bench stated that this can be a separate matter and the courtroom doesn’t wish to get into it and nobody is stopping them from doing so.
The three-judge SC bench had on December 14, 2018, dismissed the petitions, together with a petition by Sharma, looking for a court-monitored probe into the fighter procurement, stating that the choice could be taken. , pricing and “had no opportunity to really doubt the process”. Selection of offset companions. The courtroom additionally stated that there is no such thing as a materials to indicate that the federal government has commercially favored anybody.
However, Sharma once more approached the courtroom in April 2021 with a brand new PIL, making Prime Minister Narendra Modi the primary respondent.
On November 14, 2019, the apex courtroom additionally dismissed petitions looking for assessment of its December 2018 judgment.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
