New Delhi [India], Oct 27 (NT): PM Modi led Central Government on Saturday submitted the details of the decision-making process relating to the Rafale deal to the Supreme Court Secretary General in a sealed cover.

It is noted that a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had sought the said information from the Centre without enlightening the technical details and the prices of the Rafale fighter jets. The top court will hear the matter next on October 29.

Worth mention here on Wednesday, a fresh Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Apex court in connection with the Rafale deal by advocate Prashant Bhushan, and former Union Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie. They are seeking a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in the case.

Point to be noted that in 2012, when the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) was in office, India planned to buy 18 off-the-shelf jets from France, with 108 others to be assembled in the nation by the state-run aerospace and defense company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.

But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government crumbed the UPA's plan and announced that it would buy 36 "ready-to-fly" Rafale jets from French aerospace major Dassault Aviation.

The opposition grand old Congress party has been accusing the Centre of misdeed in the high-profile Defence fighter jets contract. It alleged that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government was procuring each aircraft at a cost of over Rs 1,670 crore as against Rs 526 crore finalized by the UPA government.