The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a slew of petitions challenging its judgment in the controversial Rafale fighter jet case. The apex court also reserved its order on a plea seeking contempt action against Congress president Rahul Gandhi for attributing the 'chowkidar chor hai' remarks to the Supreme Court.
Rahul Gandhi had on Wednesday tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for wrongfully attributing to the apex court the 'chowkidar chor hai' remark in the Rafale case.
In addition to the judgment review and defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, the Supreme Court is also considering an application filed by the review petitioners seeking perjury proceedings against government officials who had allegedly suppressed information from the court.
A bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi and comprising justices S.K. Kaul and K.M. Joseph, heard the pleas seeking review of its December 14, 2018 verdict in the Rafale case along with applications seeking perjury action against unknown government servants and production of certain documents before the court. The apex court had then dismissed the plea filed by Sinha, Shourie and Bhushan seeking probe into alleged irregularities in the multi-crore Rafale fighter jet deal.
In its reply to the application seeking perjury action, the Centre has said that "in view of dismissal of the main writ petition, the present application which has been filed is not at all maintainable."
