The Supreme Court on 21st February agreed to consider listing of pleas seeking review of its December 14 verdict dismissing the need for an investigation into the deal to procure 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi headed bench said four applications or petitions have been filed in the Rafale matter and one of them is still lying with the registry on due to defect.
On December 14 last year, a clutch of PILs were dismissed by the apex court, including the one filed by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and Bhushan, saying there was "no occasion to doubt" the decision-makin process of the Centre in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France.
The trio had moved the apex court Monday seeking initiation of perjury proceedings against central government officials for allegedly giving "false or misleading" information in a sealed cover in the high-profile Rafale case.
The petition is based on the information contained in the recently submitted report of the Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG), and also reports in The Hindu and The Caravan.
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