As per report the Supreme Court on Wednesday, 10 April, dismissed the Centre's preliminary objections to the Rafale review petitions and allowed admissibility of three "classified" documents as evidence in the case. The apex court said “Review petitions against its 14 December verdict dismissing all petitions against procurement of Rafale jets will be decided on merits”.
Meanwhile the court further said that it will now fix the date for hearing the review petitions. When speaking after the SC order on Wednesday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said, "Supreme Court has accepted that there is some form of corruption in the Rafale deal and that 'chowkidar ne chori karwayi hai' (chowkidar PM Modi has facilitated the theft)." Furthermore speaking after the SC order, Arun Shourie, who filed the review plea in the Rafale case, said that the court has accepted their plea and rejected the arguments of the government with all the judges concurring.
Arun Shourie said "Our argument was that because the documents relate to defense you must examine them. You asked for this evidence and we have provided it and so the court has accepted our pleas and rejected the arguments of the government." Moreover the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, 10 April, will pronounce its decision on the preliminary objections raised by the Centre to the Rafale review petitions, on whether or not to admit certain 'confidential' documents as evidence when conducting the review.
