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Paying commission or brokerage by defense vendors is banned by India. Ever since the
Bofors scam, India went into a defense-spending freeze. Following the near-bankruptcy situation created by incompetent Prime Ministers V.P. Singh and Chandrasekhar, the country took a long time to come out of its defense hibernation. It was shaken out of its slumber by the invasion at Kargil by Pakistan and ever since, the country has been on a defense-spending spree trying to compensate for the lost 15 years.
Recently, the NDA alleged corruption in the French Scorpene deal
and some say this is a tit-for-tat allegation from the Government. The CBI has an unenviable record of 0 conviction or conclusion in any of its cases. The common joke is if someone wants to get away from his crime, he should insist on the CBI assuming the case.
Unfortunately, this is not because of the ineptness of the investigative agency but the meddling of the process by interested politicians, corrupt police force, and the lack of charter to assume investigative rights in extra-regional
areas.
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