CAG report

“(This is) another attack on the institution of CAG by the institution wreckers based on falsehood. After 10 years in government former UPA ministers still don’t know that finance secretary is only a designation given to the senior-most secretary in the finance ministry,” Jaitley said a series of tweets Sunday.

Sibal said Mehrishi was the finance secretary from October 24, 2014 to August 30, 2015 and in between Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Paris on April 10, 2015 and announced the signing of the Rafale deal.

“...Finance ministry plays an important role in these negotiations... Now it is clear that the Rafale deal happened under Rajiv Mehrishi. Now he is CAG. We met him twice on September 19 and October 4, 2018. We told him about the scam. We told him that the deal should be probed because it is corrupt. But how can he initiate a probe against himself,” Sibal had said.

The Rafale issue was even raised before the Supreme Court, which did not find any substance in the allegations.