Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 6
The Supreme Court today adjourned to May 10 the hearing on petitions seeking review of its verdict on Rafale deal, saying it would be taken up along with the contempt petition against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his “chowkidar chor hai” jibe at the PM wrongly attributed to it.
A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi wondered how the review petitions and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi’s contempt petition against Gandhi were listed separately on different dates when it had ordered that both the cases be heard together.
“We are little perplexed that the two cases are listed on two different dates when the order was that these matters will be heard together,” said the Bench also comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Bench that he was ready to argue the review petition and his application seeking production of certain documents. He demanded that the Bench should allow his co-petitioner and former Union Minister Arun Shourie to argue a separate application seeking perjury action against unknown government servants for allegedly misleading the court during the Rafale case hearing earlier.
The SC had on April 30 issued notice to the government on a petition seeking review of its verdict dismissing demands for a probe into alleged irregularities in procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France. It had asked the government to respond to the review petition filed by former Union Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and lawyer Prashant Bhushan by Saturday. It had posted the matter for further hearing on May 6.
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2VJ464F
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