The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the government time till May 6 to respond to a batch of review petitions on the Rafale deal and file counter-affidavits, rejecting attorney-general K.K. Venugopal’s plea for a four-week adjournment.
The review pleas have challenged the court’s December 14 judgment that had said there was no illegality in the decision-making process related to the controversial purchase of 36 Rafale combat jets from France.
Venugopal had sought four weeks to file the counter-affidavit but Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi declined the plea.
The bench of Chief Justice Gogoi and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph issued a formal notice after Venugopal sought one.
