Rafale deal: Supreme Court to hear review petition, contempt plea against Rahul Gandhi on May 10

The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned to 10 May the hearing of pleas seeking review of its verdict on the Rafale fighter jet case and also the contempt petition against Congress President Rahul Gandhi for attributing the ‘chowkidar chor hai’ remark to the top court.

The apex court said it would take up the pleas seeking review of its December 14, 2018 verdict on the Rafale fighter jet case and the contempt case against Congress president Rahul Gandhi's 'chowkidar chor hai' remark together on May 10.

A special bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, also comprising Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph, expressed surprise as to how the review pleas and the contempt petition against Gandhi were listed separately on different dates when it had earlier ordered that both the cases will be heard together.

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"We are little perplexed that the two cases are listed on two different dates when the order was that these matters will be heard together," the bench said.

During the brief hearing, advocate Prashant Bhushan told the bench that he would argue the review pleas as well as an application seeking production of certain documents.

He said the court should allow his co-petitioner and former Union minister Arun Shourie to argue a separate application seeking perjury action against unknown government servants for allegedly misleading the court during the Rafale case hearing earlier.

(With inputs from PTI)