PANAJI

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today welcomed the Supreme Court’s clean chit to the Narendra Modi government in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.

After the verdict, Parrikar tweeted: “Satyamev Jayate (truth alone triumphs)” .

Parrikar was the Defence Minister when the Indian and French governments signed an agreement to purchase the planes from Dassault.

The court also dismissed all petitions seeking a direction to the CBI to register an FIR for alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the multi-billion dollar deal.