SC’s Rafale ruling: Rahul calls for Joint Parliamentary Committee probe

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the Supreme Court’s Justice K M Joseph has left open a “huge door” for investigation into the Rafale deal and demanded that a probe must begin in full earnest.

He also called for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the fighter jet contract.

Gandhi’s remarks came after the Supreme Court gave clean chit to the Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully-loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal.