The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL of Subramanian Swamy seeking quashing of the Centre's approval to Jet-Etihad Airways deal.
A bench comprising Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi said that it would hear the petition on October 8.
Mentioning the matter, Mr. Swamy said it required urgent hearing in view of the approval accorded to the deal by the central government.
Mr. Swamy had in his PIL sought "a direction to set aside and revoke any action or decision or grant of any further approvals/permissions/ permits, etc. by the respondent (govt) authorities, based upon, relying upon or in furtherance of the impugned bilateral dated April 24."
"The petitioner challenges such arbitrary, irrational and mala fide act of grant of largesse in the form of bilateral/MoU dated April 24 and by way of the present petition seeks an investigation under the supervision of this court into the matters of national and public interest," he has said in his petition.
He has also sought a CBI probe against the government officials who had cleared the deal.
He questioned the Centre's decision to execute the agreement in favour of Abu Dhabi under the existing Air Service Agreement between the governments of India and the UAE.
"The actions of the authorities from the execution of the bilateral to the unprecedented haste in order to assist the realisation of wrongful gains by the facilitator are writ large with acts of collusion and abuse of position," the petition contended.
Meanwhile, Jet Airways scrip closed with losses of over 1 per cent, surrendering its early gains, on the National Stock Exchange due to profit booking in an overall flat market on Friday.
Jet Airways shares closed down by 1.19 per cent at Rs 382.
On the BSE, the stock had surged by 7.26 per cent to Rs 414.70 in early trade, but finally ended the day at Rs 384.50, down 0.54 per cent.
On the volume front, 16.16 lakh shares of the company changed hands on the BSE, while more than 69 lakh shares were traded on the NSE during the day.
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