Rafale deal row: SC to hear review petition today
March 14, 2019  11:36
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The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the review petition against its December 14 order in the Rafale deal row. The government on Wednesday filed a fresh affidavit in the apex court in the Rafale case, saying that "unauthorisedly-accessed' documents related to "internal secret deliberations' had been presented in a "selective' manner to mislead the court and amounted to damaging national security.


The Ministry of Defence sought dismissal of both the review petition and the miscellaneous application in the matter while contending that "it has become imperative for the Union of India to seek removal of these documents from the record of the Review Petition and Miscellaneous application filed by the petitioners'.


It told the court that the documents attached by the petitioners in the Rafale review case are sensitive to national security and relate to war capacity of the combat aircraft.


The government said the unauthorised photocopying of such documents has "adversely affected the sovereignty, security and friendly relations with the foreign countries".
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