Bofors case News

The agency on Thursday submitted before the court that decision on further course of action would be taken by it and wanted to withdraw the application for now.

Bofors and Rafale deal may be three decades apart but both reflect how political discourse often dictate terms of national security.

The apex court said that appeals are time bound and therefore, it cannot entertain CBI's appeal in the matter.

In a major development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a 2005 order of the Delhi High Court quashing all charges against those accused in the politically-sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off case.

Attorney General KK Venugopal has told the government that the CBI should not file a special leave petition in the Bofors case.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked BJP leader Ajay Agrawal to explain his locus in filing an appeal in the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-offs case.

An advocate-cum-politician, who has been pursuing the politically-sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off case in the Supreme Court, has questioned the move of the CBI to appeal against a Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against the Europe-based industrialists, the Hinduja brothers.

The CBI has written to the government for reconsideration of its 2005 decision and allow the agency to file a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court in the Bofors case challenging quashing of an FIR in the alleged scam, officials said.