AMN / NEW DELHI
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that categorical and emphatic findings recorded by the apex court in its 14th December verdict in the Rafale deal case has no apparent error warranting its review.
It said the petitioners, in the garb of seeking review of the verdict and placing reliance on some press reports and some incomplete internal file notings procured unauthorisedly and illegally, cannot seek to re-open the whole matter since the scope of review petition is “extremely limited”.
The Centre’s reply came on pleas filed by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist-advocate Prashant Bhushan seeking review of the top court verdict by which their plea seeking probe into alleged irregularities in the multi-crore Rafale fighter jet deal was dismissed.
All the review petitions are scheduled to be taken up for hearing next week by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.