Breaking- Rafale & Sabarimala Review Petitions: SC To Pronounce Judgment Tomorrow [Read Notices]

The Supreme Court will pronounce judgments in Review Petitions filed in Rafale and Sabarimala cases tomorrow.

The Constitution Bench comprising of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justices RF Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra will be delivering the judgment in Sabarimala Review Petitions at 10.30 am tomorrow. The three judge bench comprising of CJI Gogoi, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph will be pronouncing judgment in Rafale Review after this.

The Supreme Court constitution bench had, in February, reserved judgment in a bunch of review petitions filed against the September 28 judgment, which declared right of women of all age groups to enter the temple.

In May 2019, the three judge bench had reserved verdict in the petition seeking review of the December 14 judgment which had declined to order probe into the alleged corruption in the deal to procure 36 Rafale aircraft from French company Dassault aviation. Also, the Court had reserved orders in the contempt petition filed by BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi against Congress President Rahul Gandhi for remarking that Supreme Court had found "chowkidar chor hain" in its April 10 verdict in Rafale preliminary objections. The Court is expected to pronounce orders on the contempt petition tomorrow. 

Judgments Under Review

The Supreme Court, on 28th September 2018, delivered the judgment in Sabarimala case. By a 4:1 majority, the Court has permitted entry of women of all age groups to the Sabarimala temple, holding that 'devotion cannot be subjected to gender discrimination'.

The Supreme Court in December, last year, had dismissed a string of petitions seeking an independent probe into the 2015 Rafale deal, according it a clean chit in all respects- decision-making, pricing and procurement procedure.The bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S. K. Kaul and K. M. Joseph was pronouncing its judgment on a batch of PILs by Advocates M. L. Sharma and Vineet Dhanda, Advocate Prashant Bhushan and former Union Ministers Arun Shourie and Yashwant Sinha and AAP MP Sanjay Singh.

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