The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking FIR to filed against the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after they were named in the Italian court verdict in the AgustaWestland case.
The PIL was filed in 2013 which had then sought a CBI investigation against the people who are accused in the case. However, the SC had then not entertained the petition and had kept it in pending.
After the Italian court judgement earlier in the week, advocate ML Sharma requested the SC to hear the petition again.
The PIL has been listed for hearing next week.
A bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and justices R Banumathi and UU Lalit ordered listing of the PIL when Sharma said that it is an urgent matter which should be heard at the earliest.
CBI had in 2013 registered a case in connection with alleged bribes paid by the firm to Indians to clinch the deal for 12 helicopters to ferry VVIPs including the President and Prime Minister.
An Italian court has reportedly cited handwritten references to Gandhi, her political secretary Ahmed Patel and former Air Chief SP Tyagi by a middleman in a judgement that convicted the helicopter company's chief executive.
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