Taking a swipe at Attorney General K K Venugopal’s fresh remark on Rafale documents, senior Congress leader P Chidambram Saturday said that from “stolen documents” they became “photocopied documents” as the “thief” may have returned them.
His jibe came a day after the attorney general said that the Rafale documents were not stolen from the Defence Ministry and that what he meant in his submission before the Supreme Court on Wednesday was that petitioners in the application used “photocopies of the original” papers, deemed secret by the government.
“On Wednesday, it was ‘stolen documents’. On Friday, it was ‘photocopied documents’.I suppose the thief returned the documents in between on Thursday,” Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.
“On Wednesday, the Official Secrets Act was shown to the newspaper. On Friday, the ‘Olive Branches Act’ was shown. We salute common sense,” the former finance minister said.
