The Supreme Court directed the Union government on Tuesday to file response by May 4 to the petitions seeking review of last December’s Rafale verdict by which the apex court had dismissed the pleas challenging India’s deal to procure 36 fighter jets from France.
A bench of Justices S.K. Kaul and K.M. Joseph, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, did not allow the plea of the Centre that it be granted four weeks time to file its response to the pleas.
It asked it to submit the response latest by Saturday. The bench has fixed May 6 for hearing the petitions.
