Rafale row: Has Modi govt misled SC on CAG report?

Expressing shock and disappointment over the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday dismissing their petition seeking a court monitored CBI probe into the Rafale deal, former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan said the verdict "neither addressed the documented facts nor dealt with their main prayer seeking an investigation into the deal to purchase the French fighter jets".

Pointing out that no report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the Rafale deal had been submitted or examined, they said the judgment was "shocking" as it was based on completely false information about the CAG report and "disappointing", that the court has taken a "conservative view of judicial review in cases of defence deal corruption involving high functionaries".