Rafale: Charge govt with perjury, Cong asks SC
TNN | Updated: Dec 17, 2018, 01:44 ISTHighlights
- Centre had provided false information to the apex court, guilty of committing breach of privilege of both Houses of Parliament: Anand Sharma
- Govt heaped insult on the CJI and his fellow judges by telling that they do not understand the English language: Sharma
NEW DELHI: Keeping up the pressure on the Modi government over the Rafale deal, Congress on Sunday urged the Supreme Court to recall its verdict and said the apex court should charge the government with perjury and contempt of court.
Congress leader Anand Sharma alleged the Centre had provided false information to the apex court and the government was guilty of committing breach of privilege of both Houses of Parliament by claiming that the CAG report on Rafale pricing had been presented to the Public Accounts Committee.
"The SC judgment is not only self-contradictory but we are shocked to find factual inaccuracies... government's submissions were false and the judgment is based on the premise that the government had shared the prices with CAG and that the CAG report had been submitted to the PAC," Sharma said.
Referring to what happened as "unprecedented", Sharma added that the government's curative petition "adds insult to the injury caused".
"What the government is seeking to do, instead of apologising to the Supreme Court for having committed perjury and contempt of court, it has heaped further insult on the SC by telling the Chief Justice of India and his fellow judges that they do not understand the English language. They do not understand grammar, if you read the curative petition, it actually says so that they did not understand. This is the meaning, they misunderstood," Sharma said.
Congress leader Anand Sharma alleged the Centre had provided false information to the apex court and the government was guilty of committing breach of privilege of both Houses of Parliament by claiming that the CAG report on Rafale pricing had been presented to the Public Accounts Committee.
"The SC judgment is not only self-contradictory but we are shocked to find factual inaccuracies... government's submissions were false and the judgment is based on the premise that the government had shared the prices with CAG and that the CAG report had been submitted to the PAC," Sharma said.
Referring to what happened as "unprecedented", Sharma added that the government's curative petition "adds insult to the injury caused".
"What the government is seeking to do, instead of apologising to the Supreme Court for having committed perjury and contempt of court, it has heaped further insult on the SC by telling the Chief Justice of India and his fellow judges that they do not understand the English language. They do not understand grammar, if you read the curative petition, it actually says so that they did not understand. This is the meaning, they misunderstood," Sharma said.
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