The Supreme Court on Thursday, 14 November, is scheduled to decide on petitions seeking a review of its judgment giving a clean chit to the Modi government in the Rafale fighter jet deal with French firm Dassault Aviation.
Arguments on the Rafale review petitions were heard and completed on 10 May, after months of delays, including arguments on the government’s preliminary objections that took longer than arguing the main issues.
As far back as January, we knew the basic arguments that were being raised by the primary review petitioners, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and Prashant Bhushan, which were elaborated on in court.
They had two main grounds on which they were asking the apex court to reconsider its judgment of 14 December 2018, in which it had refused to interfere in the Rafale deal, claiming that procedures were broadly followed and that aspects of the deal such as pricing were not within the purview of judicial review: