NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today asked CBI to apprise it of the status of its probe, if any, into alleged irregularities in purchase or hiring of 111 aircraft for Air India that had cost about Rs 70,000 crores to it during the tenure of Praful Patel as the Civil Aviation Minister.
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and justices R K Agrawal and Arun Mishra gave two weeks time to CBI for filing a fresh status report in the case.
The court's direction came when lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), referred to a response received under RTI, of the Civil Aviation Ministry that it cannot part with information on purchase of aircraft as CBI was looking into it.
15/04/2015/PTI/Economic times
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A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and justices R K Agrawal and Arun Mishra gave two weeks time to CBI for filing a fresh status report in the case.
The court's direction came when lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), referred to a response received under RTI, of the Civil Aviation Ministry that it cannot part with information on purchase of aircraft as CBI was looking into it.
15/04/2015/PTI/Economic times
