The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to clearly disagree with the government as it sought to dub the documents relied on by petitioners who sought a review of its ruling on the Rafale aircraft deal as ‘inadmissible’ since they were ‘stolen’ ones. During the hearing of the review petitions Attorney-General KK Venugopal said the relevant documents were marked ‘secret’ and ‘classified’ and were in the public domain in violation of the Official Secrets Act.
An investigation into the theft (of the documents) is on, the AG said on a day The Hindu, which carried a series of articles critical of the government on the deal by citing official documents, published another one.
