{"id":222087,"date":"2019-11-14T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=222087"},"modified":"2019-11-14T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:10:40","slug":"breaking-sc-dismisses-the-petition-seeking-review-of-the-rafale-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/11\/14\/breaking-sc-dismisses-the-petition-seeking-review-of-the-rafale-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses the petition seeking review of the Rafale Verdict [Full Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong><\/span>: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph, JJ has dismissed the the petition seeking review of it\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002972767\">2018 order where the bench had dismissed the petition seeking probe in the much talked about Rafale Deal<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by holding that there was<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">no reason for any intervention by this Court on the sensitive issue of purchase of 36 defence aircrafts by the Indian Government<\/span><\/em><\/span><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court held that the review petitions are without any merit and are accordingly dismissed, once again, re-emphasising that it\u2019s original decision was based within the contours of Article 32 of the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>SK Kaul, J, writing for himself and Gogoi, CJ said<\/em><\/strong>,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe cannot lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with a contract for aircrafts, which was pending before different Governments for quite some time and the necessity for those aircrafts has never been in dispute. We had, thus, concluded in para 34 noticing that other than the aforesaid three aspects, that too to a limited extent, this Court did not consider it appropriate to embark on a roving and fishing enquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the aspect of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>pricing<\/strong><\/span>, the Court held that it is not the function of this Court to determine the prices nor for that matter can such aspects be dealt with on mere suspicion of persons who decide to approach the Court. The internal mechanism of such pricing would take care of the situation. It, further, said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs to what should be loaded on the aircraft or not and what further pricing should be added has to be left to the best judgment of the competent authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">decision making process<\/span><\/strong>, the Court said that there were undoubtedly opinions expressed in the course of the decision making process, which may be different from the decision taken, but then any decision making process envisages debates and expert opinion and the final call is with the competent authority, which so exercised it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the argument by the petitioner that the prayer made was for <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">registration of an F.I.R. and investigation by the C.B.<\/span>I.,<\/strong> which has not been dealt with and the contract has been reviewed prematurely by the Judiciary without the benefit of investigation and inquiry into the disputed questions of facts, the Court said that it wasn\u2019t a fair submission as,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201call counsels, including counsel representing the petitioners in this matter addressed elaborate submissions on all the aforesaid three aspects. No doubt that there was a prayer made for registration of F.I.R. and further investigation but then once we had examined the three aspects on merits we did not consider it appropriate to issue any directions, as prayed for by the petitioners which automatically covered the direction for registration of FIR, prayed for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>KM Joseph, J, in a separate but concurring opinion, wrote on the issue of registration of FIR<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is not a case where an old argument is being repeated in the sense that after it has been considered and rejected, it is re-echoed in review. It is an argument which was undoubtedly pressed in the original innings. It is not the fault of the party if the court chose not even to touch upon it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, however, noticed that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>the petitioners have filed the complaint fully knowing that Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 constitutes a bar to any inquiry or enquiry or investigation unless there was previous approval<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In terms of <strong>Section 17A<\/strong>, no Police Officer is permitted to conduct any enquiry or inquiry or conduct investigation into any offence done by a public servant where the offence 88 alleged is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by the public servant in discharge of his public functions without previous approval, inter alia, of the authority competent to remove the public servant from his Office at the time when the offence was alleged to have been committed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noticing the law as specified under Section 17A, he said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEven proceeding on the basis that on petitioners complaint, an FIR must be registered as it purports to disclose cognizable offences and the Court must so direct, will it not be a futile exercise having regard to Section 17A.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, hence, held that though otherwise the petitioners may have made out a case, having regard to the law actually laid down in <a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/\/DocumentLink\/18ovNooL\"><strong><em>Lalita Kumari v. Government of Uttar Pradesh, (2014) 2 SCC 1<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and more importantly, Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, in a Review Petition, the petitioners cannot succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 2018 verdict, the Court had said that they interacted with the senior Air Force Officers who answered Court queries including that of the acquisition process and pricing. Stating that it cannot sit in judgment over the wisdom of deciding to go in for purchase of 36 aircrafts in place of 126 and cannot possibly compel the Government to go in for purchase of 126 aircraft, the Court said<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>\u201cOur country cannot afford to be unprepared\/ underprepared in a situation where our adversaries are stated to have acquired not only 4<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>th<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>\u00a0generation, but even 5<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>th<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>\u00a0generation aircrafts, of which, we have none. It would not be correct for the Court to sit as an appellate authority to scrutinize each aspect of the process of acquisition.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>Read more about the 3-judge bench verdict in Rafale Deal case<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><em><strong>\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.scconline.com\/post\/2018\/12\/14\/rafale-deal-no-substantial-record-to-show-that-this-is-a-case-of-commercial-favouritism-sc\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph, JJ has dismissed the the petition 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SABARIMALA REVIEW PETITION The 5-judge Constitution Bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and RF Nariman, AM Khanwilkar,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":222090,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/11\/14\/breaking-sc-accepts-rahul-gandhis-apology-for-his-chowkidar-chor-hai-remarks-contempt-petition-dismissed\/","url_meta":{"origin":222087,"position":2},"title":"BREAKING| SC accepts Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s apology for his &#8220;Chowkidar Chor Hai remarks&#8221;; Contempt Petition dismissed","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"November 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and SK Kaul and KM Joseph, JJ has closed the contempt petition filed by BJP lawmaker Meenakshi Lekhi against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for wrongly attributing to the court, his \"chowkidar chor hai\" slogan against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rafale\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":206851,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/12\/14\/rafale-deal-no-substantial-record-to-show-that-this-is-a-case-of-commercial-favouritism-sc\/","url_meta":{"origin":222087,"position":3},"title":"Rafale Deal | No substantial record to show that this is a case of commercial favouritism: SC","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"December 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cPerception of individuals cannot be the basis of fishing and roving enquiry by the Court.\u201d Supreme Court: A Bench comprising of CJ Ranjan Gogoi and S.K. 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Joseph, JJ. dismissed the petitions pertaining to seeking probe in \u2018Rafale Deal\u2019 by stating that \u201cwe find no reason for any\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":210521,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/02\/21\/sc-to-consider-listing-of-plea-seeking-review-of-its-verdict-in-rafale-deal-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":222087,"position":4},"title":"SC to consider listing of plea seeking review of its verdict in Rafale Deal case","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: The bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and L N Rao and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ said that it would consider listing of a plea seeking review of its verdict in the Rafale case after Advocate Prashant Bhushan sought urgent listing of the matter. 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