Anil Ambani  

Ministry of Defence and Reliance group were quick to issue rebuttals on the allegations saying connections drawn between the tax issue and the Rafale matter are inaccurate.

In December, the apex court had rejected the petition that accused the government of deliberately procuring 36 Rafale fighter jets at an inflated price to help Anil Ambani’s newly formed defence firm get an offset contract with jet-maker Dassault Aviation.

According to the crime branch, accused have been identified as court Manav Sharma and his assistant registrar Tapan Kumar Chakraborty. They were sacked by the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi following a complaint that they had tampered with an order asking Anil Ambani for personal presence in a contempt case.

Soon after making the payment, RCom announced the termination of a Rs 17,000 crore deal to sell telecom assets like spectrum, fibre and tower to Mukesh's Reliance Jio, citing delays in approvals from the government and lenders.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Wednesday gave a joint statement on strategic ties and the much awaited hearing of the Ram temple case would be heard on Feb 26.

Ericsson, which is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, had filed three contempt plea in the Supreme Court. The contempt plea was filed against Ambani, Reliance Telecom chairman Satish Seth, Reliance Infratel chairperson Chhaya Virani and SBI chairman.

Even as Congress president Rahul Gandhi is crying his voice hoarse over the India-France Rafale aircraft deal benefiting Anil Ambani based on half-baked theories, eminent party member and former Union minister Kapil Sibal is fighting a case in the court in favour of the industrialist

There is no factual basis of the Congress’s allegation that the Narendra Modi government favoured any company, Anil Ambani’s or anybody else’s, in choosing an offset partner for Dassault Aviation, the maker of Rafale fighter aircraft. But Rahul Gandhi is going on and on at the expense of the country’s defence preparedness.