22 Feb 2019  |   05:45am IST

SC to consider listing of pleas seeking review of Rafale verdict

PTI, NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday said it would consider hearing pleas seeking review of its December 14 verdict that had dismissed petitions challenging the deal between India and France for procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets.

The top court had rejected the petitions, including those by former Union ministers, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie as also lawyer Prashant Bhushan, seeking judicial scrutiny and court-monitored CBI probe into the Rs 58,000 crore deal, saying there was no occasion to "really doubt the decision making process".

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Thursday considered the submission of Bhushan that his review plea and a separate application, seeking perjury prosecution of some government officials for "misleading" the court during earlier hearings, be listed urgently.

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