By CNBC-TV18 Mar 6, 2019 5:28:51 PM IST (Updated)
Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi on Wednesday asked the government that the Supreme Court should not consider the Rafale case because the method of procuring documents by a newspaper related to the case is wrong.
"Where does it say that the court must ask petitioners to clarify on source and means of obtaining the document?" Gogoi asked attorney general KK Venugopal while hearing a batch of petitions seeking a review of Supreme Court December 14 verdict dismissing all the pleas against the deal procured by India from France.
Former union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan, who had jointly filed a petition, alleged that the centre suppressed crucial facts when the apex court decided to dismiss the batch of PILs against the Rafale deal in December.