e Supreme Court on
Thursday sought responses of the
Centre and the three Service chiefs on
a PIL seeking to know why the
government was procuring junked
aircraft carriers and maintaining
ageing fighter aircraft and submarines
which were a drain on national
resources and danger to men in
uniform.
A bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam
and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and N V
Ramana issued notice on a PIL filed by
six advocates led by Ranvir Yadav.
The petitioners' counsel D K Garg said
citizens wanted to know why the
government was "procuring outdated
arms, ammunition and fighter jets,
refurbished submarines and frontline
warships having obsolete techniques
of last century which have been
decommissioned as outdated, for our
armed forces, the second largest in the
world".
Thursday sought responses of the
Centre and the three Service chiefs on
a PIL seeking to know why the
government was procuring junked
aircraft carriers and maintaining
ageing fighter aircraft and submarines
which were a drain on national
resources and danger to men in
uniform.
A bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam
and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and N V
Ramana issued notice on a PIL filed by
six advocates led by Ranvir Yadav.
The petitioners' counsel D K Garg said
citizens wanted to know why the
government was "procuring outdated
arms, ammunition and fighter jets,
refurbished submarines and frontline
warships having obsolete techniques
of last century which have been
decommissioned as outdated, for our
armed forces, the second largest in the
world".
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