The Supreme Court will on April 10 pronounce its verdict on five Rafale review petitions, chiefly on two preliminary issues - the admissibility of “stolen” Rafale documents as evidence and the claim of privilege raised on them by the government. The causelist shows judgements listed in the names of both Chief Justice Gogoi and Justice Joseph. The review petitions were filed against a December 14, 2018 judgement of the Supreme Court upholding the 36 Rafale jets' deal. But Justice Joseph had countered the government version by drawing the latter's attention to ask the Right to Information Act (RTI) of 2005. On the last day of hearing, Justice Joseph made Mr. Venugopal read out Section 22 of the RTI Act, which declared RTI to have an “overriding effect” over OSA.

Source: The Hindu April 09, 2019 14:26 UTC