{"id":424381,"date":"2021-07-05T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424381"},"modified":"2021-07-05T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:11:15","slug":"france-begins-judicial-probe-into-rafale-deal-with-india-french-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/france-begins-judicial-probe-into-rafale-deal-with-india-french-media\/","title":{"rendered":"France begins judicial probe into Rafale deal with India: French media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A French judge has been appointed to lead a \u201chighly sensitive\u201d judicial investigation into alleged \u201ccorruption and favouritism\u201d in the Rs 59,000 crore Rafale fighter jet deal with India, French investigative website Mediapart reported.<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come forward and order a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorruption in the Rafale deal has come out clearly now. The stand of the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi has been vindicated today after the French government has ordered a probe,\u201d he told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French judge has been appointed to lead a \u201chighly sensitive\u201d judicial investigation into alleged \u201ccorruption and favouritism\u201d in the Rs 59,000 crore Rafale fighter jet deal with India, French investigative website Mediapart reported. Following the development, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come forward and order a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal. \u201cCorruption in the Rafale deal has come out clearly now. The stand of the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi has been vindicated today after the French government has ordered a probe,\u201d he told reporters at a [&hellip;]<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424381","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=424381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}