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Tuesday, 29 April 2014

PIL asks why India is procuringobsolete defence equipment

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government was "procuring outdated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decommissioned as outdated, for our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".





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