{"id":127397,"date":"2018-02-02T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=127397"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:54:10","slug":"bofors-again-in-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bofors-again-in-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bofors again in SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CBI filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a 2005 order of the Delhi High Court quashing all charges against accused persons in the politically sensitive Bofors pay-off case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The filing of the appeal assumes significance as Attorney General KK Venugopal had recently advised the agency against moving a petition against the high court verdict after a delay of 12 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127398 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VENUGOPAL-1a.jpg\" alt=\"Bofors again in SC\" width=\"660\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VENUGOPAL-1a.jpg 660w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VENUGOPAL-1a-240x172.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources, however, said that after consultations, law officers were in favour of the appeal as the CBI came out with &#8220;some important documents and evidence&#8221; to challenge the high court order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation filed the appeal against the May 31, 2005 decision of the high court by which all accused, including Europe-based industrialists Hinduja brothers, were discharged from the Rs 64-crore pay-off case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBI filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a 2005 order of the Delhi High Court quashing all charges against accused persons in the politically sensitive Bofors pay-off case. The filing of the appeal assumes significance as Attorney General KK Venugopal had recently advised the agency against moving a petition against the high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35611,65156,65160,825,3106,230,65158,65157,65159,850],"class_list":["post-127397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-attorney-general","tag-bofors","tag-bofors-again-in-sc","tag-cbi","tag-central-bureau-of-investigation","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-hinduja-brothers","tag-kk-venugopal","tag-rs-64-crore-pay-off-case","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/supreme-court-copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}