{"id":273114,"date":"2019-05-06T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273114"},"modified":"2019-05-06T06:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:22:44","slug":"government-confirms-frank-rafale-file-notings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-confirms-frank-rafale-file-notings\/","title":{"rendered":"Government confirms \u2018frank\u2019 Rafale file notings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office \u201cmonitoring\u201d the Rafale deal could not be construed as \u201cinterference or parallel negotiations\u201d as alleged by critics, but did not deny the claim that the defence ministry had objected to the PMO\u2019s role. <\/p>\n<p>Seeking the dismissal of a batch of review petitions with \u201cexemplary costs\u201d on the ground that they were mostly based on purportedly unfounded media reports, the Centre also pleaded that the tax concessions given to Reliance Industries by the French government had no connection with the Rafale deal, as has been alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office \u201cmonitoring\u201d the Rafale deal could not be construed as \u201cinterference or parallel negotiations\u201d as alleged by critics, but did not deny the claim that the defence ministry had objected to the PMO\u2019s role. Seeking the dismissal of a batch of review petitions with \u201cexemplary costs\u201d on the ground that they were mostly based on purportedly unfounded media reports, the Centre also pleaded that the tax concessions given to Reliance Industries by the French government had no connection with the Rafale deal, as has been alleged.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273114","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=273114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}