{"id":65513,"date":"2016-04-28T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=65513"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:40:28","slug":"vvip-chopper-deal-sc-to-hear-plea-against-sonia-gandhi-manmohan-singh-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vvip-chopper-deal-sc-to-hear-plea-against-sonia-gandhi-manmohan-singh-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"VVIP chopper deal: SC to hear plea against Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today said it will hear next week a PIL seeking registration of an FIR against political leaders, including Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in connection with Agusta Westland Chopper case.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and justices R Banumathi and U ULalit ordered listing of the PIL when advocate M L Sharma said that it is an urgent matter which should be heard at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>CBI had in 2013 registered a case in connection with alleged bribes paid by the firm to Indians to clinch the deal for 12 helicopters to ferry VVIPs including the President and Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>An Italian court has reportedly cited handwritten references to Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmed Patel and former Air Chief S P Tyagi by a middleman in a judgement that convicted the helicopter company&#8217;s chief executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today said it will hear next week a PIL seeking registration of an FIR against political leaders, including Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in connection with Agusta Westland Chopper case. A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and justices R Banumathi and U ULalit ordered listing of the PIL when advocate M L Sharma said that it is an urgent matter which should be heard at the earliest. CBI had in 2013 registered a case in connection with alleged bribes paid by the firm to Indians to clinch the deal for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65513","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}