Augusta scam : SC agrees to hear petition for FIR against Sonia, Manmohan
The court will take it up next week.
Lawyer ML Sharma has petitioned the Supreme Court for FIRs against the Congress leaders, who have been named by an Italian court in the VVIP chopper deal.
The petition comes amid a massive row in Parliament over the 3,600 crore deal for the supply of 12 choppers for use by top Indian politicians,including the prime minister, which was signed when the Congress-led UPA was in power.
The helicopters are manufactured by AgustaWestland, whose parent company Finmeccanica is Italian.
The Italian court of Appeals has said that Agusta hired middlemen to pay bribes to decision-makers in India to swing the deal.
The ruling BJP has targeted Sonia Gandhi after an Italian Court of Appeals order cited documents that refer to the Congress leader.
Sonia Gandhi told reporters: "I have done nothing wrong. The government is there for two years, an inquiry is there. Why don't they complete it as early as possible...and impartially?"
Her aide Ahmed Patel said: "Let them hang me if there is an iota of evidence."
In a counter-attack, the Congress has claimed that AgustaWestland was blacklisted under UPA rule but "removed" from the blacklist by the Modi government
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