Rafale: Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie, Prashant Bhushan call for CBI probe

Former ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and senior lawyer in Supreme Court Prashant Bhushan said the SC’s Thursday’s judgement on Rafale has paved the way for further investigation in the Rafale deal.

Terming the deal as a “monumental corruption scandal”, the trio said the court has negatived the “false perception” created by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre that no investigation by CBI was possible in the complaints against the deal.

The trio told reporters here at a press conference on Friday that it has been over a year since a complaint was submitted to the then Director of CBI Alok Verma and they said that the present Director, Rishi Kumar Shukla, should seek necessary approval from the competent authority under Section 17A to begin the inquiry into the complaint according to the judgement.