SC reserves order on pleas seeking Rafale probe after marathon hearing

Bhushan contended that none of the three conditions for an IGA purchase, specified in the DPP-2013 that governs the Rafale contract, was met

In the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday, a three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice KM Joseph spent over four hours hearing a group of petitions filed against the government’s purchase of 36 Rafale fighters for Euro 7.85 billion (over Rs 600 billion) in September 2016. 

Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan, who have jointly filed a petition in the matter, demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be ordered to register a First Information Report (FIR) and investigate “criminal misconduct by high-ranking public servants” in cancelling