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Scorpene submarine deal probe : High Court rejects Thales plea

	April 28, 2008

The Delhi High Court on April 25 rejected French military major Thales’ plea to dismiss a public suit seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the 2.4 billion euro Scorpene submarine deal in which kickbacks are alleged to have been paid. A Bench of Justices T. S. Thakur and Siddharth Mridul said it could not dismiss the petition before studying the action taken report submitted by the CBI after it had directed the investigat¬ing agency to conduct a preliminary inquiry. “We ...