Venugopal had sought four weeks to file the counter-affidavit but Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi declined the plea. The perjury application referred to a sealed-cover note the government had submitted. Instead of admitting that it misled the court, the petitions say, the government had through an application for “correction” imputed that the court misinterpreted tenses in English. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infrastructure is the parent company of Reliance Aerostructure Ltd (the beneficiary of the Rafale offset contract). Ambani’s first foray into the defence sector was on 22nd of December, 2014, when Reliance Infrastructure incorporated Reliance Defence Technologies Pvt Ltd and Reliance Defence and Aerospace Pvt.

Source: The Telegraph May 01, 2019 02:03 UTC