Calling the Rafale deal the “largest defence scam that the country has seen”, Prashant Bhushan, lawyer and activist, on Saturday hoped the CBI would act on a complaint made by him and two others against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At an event organised by the Mumbai Press Club, he said if the CBI failed to follow due process and register a preliminary inquiry or an FIR, he would take the case to the court.
On whether the Rafale deal was similar to the Bofors scam of the 1980s, he said the present defence agreement with France was a much more serious and greater cause of concern. “This [the Rafale deal] isn’t merely a matter of securing commission for a particular company, as was the case in Bofors. This is the largest defence scam that the country has seen,” he said. He said the deal was overpriced and the French firm had been made to chose Reliance.