Just before the Lok Sabha elections, the ghost of alleged bribery in the Bofors cannon purchase has been unleashed. Advocate and petitioner Ajay Agrawal has applied for an expedited hearing in the Supreme Court on a case pertaining to the Bofors deal broke that has been pending for years. Was the Bofors case investigation a staggering ₹250 crores or an actual ₹5.5 crore? The plea for probing this discrepancy remains unheeded.
In the Supreme Court, advocate and petitioner Ajay Agrawal continues his pursuit of justice, challenging the 2005 judgment by the Delhi High Court which cleared all accused in the Bofors deal, including the Hinduja brothers, of receiving alleged kickbacks, amounts totaling to 64 crore rupees. The court had acquitted all the parties involved.
The petitioner, lawyer Agrawal, urged the Supreme Court to probe into who provided the court with these expense figures when an RTI reply in March 2011 stated that the total expenditure on the investigation was only about 5.41 crore rupees. He questions why the CBI didn't apply to correct this factual error over the years.
The Supreme Court had dismissed the CBI's plea challenging the High Court's decision on 2nd November 2018, stating that the investigative agency could present its arguments during the hearing of Agrawal's petition since he was the original filer of the SLP.
