The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to name Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the infamous Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland deal. The Defence Ministry plans to seek details from its embassy in Rome for details of the Italian court verdict on the case.


Asked to comment on the issue, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said, "There is no question of giving any relief to those who have been chargesheeted by the CBI as they are facing serious criminal offences."


He was asked if there was any possibility of giving relief to AgustaWestland in the Rs 3600 crore chopper scam in which kickbacks were paid allegedly to the tune of over Rs 350 crore in 2010.


The Defence Ministry has also refused to accept the three AW-101 choppers supplied before the contract was scrapped on January 1, 2013 as it said that it has already recovered Euro 255 million from the Italian firm which was paid as advance for the deal.