{"id":424487,"date":"2021-07-06T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T05:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424487"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:09:02","slug":"govt-should-accept-accountability-order-jpc-probe-into-rafale-deal-ak-antony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-should-accept-accountability-order-jpc-probe-into-rafale-deal-ak-antony\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt should accept accountability, order JPC probe into Rafale deal: AK Antony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the authorities in France initiating a judicial probe into allegations of corruption in the sale of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft to India, former Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said the \u201cintriguing silence\u201d of the Narendra Modi government points towards \u201cmal-intent\u201d to hush up alleged corruption in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Congress leader said the government should come forward and accept accountability, and order a free and fair Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the entire set of facts, evidence and allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrench Public Prosecution Services has now appointed a Judge to investigate the corruption, influence paddling and brazen favouritism in the 36 aircraft Rafale deal,\u201d Antony said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the authorities in France initiating a judicial probe into allegations of corruption in the sale of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft to India, former Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said the \u201cintriguing silence\u201d of the Narendra Modi government points towards \u201cmal-intent\u201d to hush up alleged corruption in the deal. The senior Congress leader said the government should come forward and accept accountability, and order a free and fair Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the entire set of facts, evidence and allegations of corruption in the Rafale deal. \u201cFrench Public Prosecution Services has now appointed [&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-424487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424487","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=424487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}