LAWS(SC)-1992-8-32

JANATA DAL Vs. H.S.CHOWDHARY

Decided On August 28, 1992
JANATA DAL Appellant
V/S
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) We gave our conclusions in our earlier Order dated 27th August 1991 (reported in 1991 (3) SCC 756) reserving the reasons to be given later. Accordingly, we render our reasons in the present judgment.

(2.) We feel that a prefatory note, though not the detailed facts of the case, is necessary for disposal of these appeals and writ petition. The facts culled out from various documents placed before this court are as follows:

(3.) On 17 April, 1987, some leading newspapers of our country gave prominent coverage to a Swedish Radio Broadcast made in the previous day, broadcasting that bribes had been paid to senior Indian politicians and key Defence figures to win the contract awarded by the Government of India to M/s. Bofors of Sweden on 24 March, 1986.