<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea to reconsider its judgement on Rafale deal. It also dismissed a plea for registration of an FIR into the deal to buy Rafale fighter jets from France in 2016.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph found the review petitions as "without merit".</p>.<p>Justice Kaul, who authored the main judgement, said the plea for registration of FIR in the matter was already dealt with elaborately in the judgement passed on December 14, 2018.</p>.<p>Justice Joseph gave his separate and concurring verdict on a batch of review petitions and one joint verdict by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan.</p>.<p>The court said it cannot lose sight of the fact that this was a inter-governmental contract, which was being negotiated for some time. It said this was not within the scope of Article 32 petition to seek registration of an FIR.</p>.<p>The petitioners sought a re-examination of the court's findings that there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets.</p>.<p>Three review petitions were filed by advocates M L Sharma and Vineet Dhanda and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea to reconsider its judgement on Rafale deal. It also dismissed a plea for registration of an FIR into the deal to buy Rafale fighter jets from France in 2016.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph found the review petitions as "without merit".</p>.<p>Justice Kaul, who authored the main judgement, said the plea for registration of FIR in the matter was already dealt with elaborately in the judgement passed on December 14, 2018.</p>.<p>Justice Joseph gave his separate and concurring verdict on a batch of review petitions and one joint verdict by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan.</p>.<p>The court said it cannot lose sight of the fact that this was a inter-governmental contract, which was being negotiated for some time. It said this was not within the scope of Article 32 petition to seek registration of an FIR.</p>.<p>The petitioners sought a re-examination of the court's findings that there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets.</p>.<p>Three review petitions were filed by advocates M L Sharma and Vineet Dhanda and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh.</p>
