Supreme Court to hear fresh plea seeking probe into allegations in Rafale deal with France
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a fresh petition seeking an independent investigation into the Rafale deal in the light of new allegations in the deal. On a petition filed by lawyer ML Sharma, the Chief Justice said that the court will hear the plea urgently. The fresh petition comes just weeks after French online journal Mediapart reported that Dassault Aviation had paid nearly one million Euros to an Indian middleman to strike the deal. The report was based on an investigation by the country’s anti-corruption agency Agence Francaise Anticorruption (AFA), the journal claimed.
