‘Fudged Arithmetic’: Jaitley Dismisses N Ram’s Rafale Deal Report

He further pointed out that Supreme Court had examined the prices, and the CAG was in the process of doing the same.

Dismissing an investigative report by The Hindu on price escalation in the Rafale deal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in a series of tweets on Friday, 18 January, claimed the article was based on “fudged arithmetic.”

Jaitley said the report – by chairman of The Hindu Publishing Group N Ram – had ignored the escalation in the 2007 non-deal offer and had instead compared the the deal with the 2016 price to “invent a scam.”

The new Article on Rafale is based on fudged arithmetic - ignore the escalation of the 2007 non-deal offer and compare it with the 2016 price and invent a scam.

— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) January 18, 2019