The Supreme Court today fixed May 7 for final hearing on a plea filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the Jet-Etihad deal. A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu posted the matter for final hearing next month on Swamy's petition seeking to quash the deal on the ground that it was against public interest as there has been squandering of natural resource, that is the sky and airspace. Swamy had told the court on January 21 that the government has furnished him copies of letters concerning Jet- Etihad deal, allegedly written by Indian officials favouring grant of additional air traffic rights to the UAE airline. On this, the apex court had asked the BJP leader to file a rejoinder within eight weeks on the contents of documents. The apex court had on December 6, 2013 made it clear that it would quash the Jet-Etihad Airways deal if any irregularities were found in it. It had issued notice to Centre and Income Tax Department on the plea seeking direction to the government to place the transcript of tapped telephonic conversation of Radia in which she allegedly had talked about the civil aviation sector.
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