The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Prime Minister’s Office “monitoring” the Rafale deal could not be construed as “interference or parallel negotiations” as alleged by critics, but did not deny the claim that the defence ministry had objected to the PMO’s role.
Seeking the dismissal of a batch of review petitions with “exemplary costs” on the ground that they were mostly based on purportedly unfounded media reports, the Centre also pleaded that the tax concessions given to Reliance Industries by the French government had no connection with the Rafale deal, as has been alleged.
