{"id":232488,"date":"2019-02-12T04:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=232488"},"modified":"2019-02-12T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T05:25:07","slug":"rafale-row-govt-rejects-conflict-of-interest-charge-against-cag-mehrishi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-row-govt-rejects-conflict-of-interest-charge-against-cag-mehrishi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale row: Govt rejects &#8216;conflict of interest&#8217; charge against CAG Mehrishi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central government on Monday rejected allegation of &#8220;conflict of interest&#8221; levied by the Congress party against CAG Rajiv Mehrishi over the audit agency&#8217;s proposed report on the Rafale deal, saying he never dealt with expenditure proposals from the Ministry of Defence as Finance Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes a day after the Congress party accused Mehrishi of committing &#8220;gross impropriety&#8221; by auditing the Rafale deal, saying as the Finance Secretary he was involved in the deal announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central government on Monday rejected allegation of &#8220;conflict of interest&#8221; levied by the Congress party against CAG Rajiv Mehrishi over the audit agency&#8217;s proposed report on the Rafale deal, saying he never dealt with expenditure proposals from the Ministry of Defence as Finance Secretary. The development comes a day after the Congress party accused Mehrishi of committing &#8220;gross impropriety&#8221; by auditing the Rafale deal, saying as the Finance Secretary he was involved in the deal announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}