The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre searching questions on the Rafale deal, including the possibility of the CBI registering an FIR, prompting attorney-general K.K. “What is your response to the submission on Lalita Kumari case?” Justice Joseph asked Venugopal towards the end of the hearing, which lasted more than two hours. Justice Joseph asked about the petitioners’ allegations about a cost escalation in the deal from 5.2bn euros to 7.89bn euros. Justice Joseph asked: “Do you have any objections to making the said consent of the three members available to this court?”“Should this court go into all these questions? He asked that when the government could share the documents with the CAG, why could it not with the Supreme Court?

Source: The Telegraph May 11, 2019 01:30 UTC