Rafale ruling based on errors: Review plea in Supreme Court

New Delhi: A review plea filed by Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and Prashant Bhushan on Wednesday claimed that the Supreme Court’s Rafale ruling was based on a nonexistent CAG report and was riddled with errors.

The petition demanded an open court hearing and a recall of the ruling, a fact if conceded could give fresh ammunition to the Congressled Opposition which has been demanding a JPC to look into the deal.

The ruling, delivered by a threejudge bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on December 14 last year, can only be reviewed by the same bench. The other two judges on the bench were Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph.

“… the impugned judgement is based on errors apparent on the face of the record and subsequent information has come to light non-consideration of which will cause grave miscarriage of justice,” the petition said.