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| Rafale hearing live updates: Supreme Court hears pleas on pricing details, procedure | | | Agencies
NEW DELHI: Amid an ongoing war between the ruling BJP and the main Opposition party Congress over the controversial Rafale deal, the Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing a batch of pleas on the pricing details of the 36 Rafale fighter jets and procedure followed by the Narendra Modi government in finalising the deal with France.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph is holding the crucial hearing in the case in which several petitioners have sought a court-monitored investigation into the deal.
The petitioners are making their submissions in the top court during the hearing.
The Narendra Modi government had on Monday handed over a 14-page document titled "Details of the steps in the decision-making process leading to the award of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft order" to the petitioners in the case.
The government had also filed in the court the pricing details of the 36 Rafale jets in a sealed cover.
The petitioners are likely to respond to the contents of the documents in which it has been stated by the government that the deal for 36 Rafale jets was negotiated on "better terms" and the Defence Procurement Procedure laid out in 2013 were "completely followed".
In its submission to the top court, the Centre also stated that the approval from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) was secured before the deal was inked with France.
The details of the decision-making process and pricing were placed in the court in compliance with its October 31 order.
India signed a defence agreement with France for the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft in a fly-away condition as part of the upgrading process of the Indian Air Force equipment.
The estimated cost of the deal is Rs 58,000 crore.
The Rafale fighter is a twin-engine Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) manufactured by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation. |
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