The Rs 1,437-crore deal between India and Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors for the supply of 400 155mm Howitzer guns for the Indian Army was entered into on March 24, 1986. (Express archive photo)
The Supreme Court is slated to hear Friday the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case in which CBI earlier this year filed an appeal after a 13-year delay against the Delhi High Court decision quashing charges against all the accused.
The matter would come up for hearing before a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice K M Joseph.
The probe agency filed an appeal on February 2 this year against the May 31, 2005 verdict of the Delhi High Court.
BJP leader and advocate Ajay Agrawal, who is pursuing the matter for over a decade, had filed an appeal in the top court in 2005 itself after the CBI had failed to challenge the high court's order within the mandatory 90 days period.
Agrawal, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Rae Bareli against the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi, had filed the appeal in which he had also made CBI as one of the respondents.
His appeal was already admitted and is pending.
After the NDA government came to power, there were speculations that CBI would…
