The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused the Union government”s request for a whole month to respond to the Rafale case review petitions and instead gave it five days till Saturday. In another judgment on April 10, the court rejected the government protests to maintainability of the review petitions against the December 14 order. The brief hearing on Tuesday on the review petitions began with Attorney General K.K. Mr. Venugopal said a fresh response was required from the government as there were new documents annexed in the review petitions. The government had claimed that the review pleas were based on secret Rafale documents unauthorisedly removed from the Ministry of Defence and leaked to the media.

Source: The Hindu April 30, 2019 11:05 UTC