Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 29: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL that asked for a further investigation into the agreement between France and India to buy 36 Rafale jets.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and S Ravindra Bhat considered lawyer M L Sharma’s submission that a direction for issuing a letters rogatory to gather new evidence pertaining to the agreement.
He also made reference to various media allegations that claimed Dassault Aviation paid a middleman one billion euros to influence the deal in its favour.
The new PIL was not given a hearing by the bench. Sharma then made the decision to drop the PIL.
On December 14, 2018, the Supreme Court dismissed a number of PILs contesting the agreement between India and France to buy 36 Rafale planes, stating that there was no reason to “seriously dispute the decision-making process” that would have called for the contract to be annulled.
