{"id":53701,"date":"2018-08-27T18:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53701"},"modified":"2018-08-27T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:58:45","slug":"congress-claimconspiracy-of-silence-over-rafale-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/congress-claimconspiracy-of-silence-over-rafale-deal","title":{"rendered":"Congress Claim:&#8217;Conspiracy of silence over Rafale deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"282\" height=\"161\" data-attachment-id=\"53702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/congress-claimconspiracy-of-silence-over-rafale-deal\/thce5z6rai\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/thCE5Z6RAI.jpg?fit=282%2C161&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"282,161\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thCE5Z6RAI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/thCE5Z6RAI.jpg?fit=282%2C161&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/thCE5Z6RAI.jpg?resize=282%2C161&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/thCE5Z6RAI.jpg?w=282&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/thCE5Z6RAI.jpg?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>:-The Congress today accused the\ncentral government of stonewalling questions over the Rafale\nfighter deal, saying there was a &#8220;conspiracy of silence&#8221; and\nan attempt to &#8220;bypass the national interest&#8221;.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    Party spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi also claimed that\nthe then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was not in the loop\nwhen the agreement to procure 36 fighter planes from France\nwas signed in 2016 and demanded that he &#8220;break his silence&#8221; on\nthe issue.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    Addressing a press conference here on the issue which her\nparty has been raising at various fora, Chaturvedi said\nParrikar&#8217;s &#8220;silence amounts to agreement to the conspiracy\nthat has betrayed the nation.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    She alleged that the Modi government had made &#8220;self-\ninterest as its primary goal over the national interest.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    The spokesperson claimed that the union government had\noverpriced the aircraft, reduced the number of aircraft and\ntaken the offset benefit away from a public sector company and\nhanded it over to a &#8220;friendly&#8221; private company.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    &#8220;I dont call Rafale a deal. It is a scam. And what the\ngovernment is doing and how it is trying to defend itself is\nnothing but a sham,&#8221; Chaturvedi said.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    &#8220;There is a conspiracy of silence to hide the\ninvestigation or to take responsibility to carry out an\ninvestigation in a very open and shut case of how you can help\nyour own people and bypass national interest,&#8221; she added.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">   She said Parrikar, now the Chief Minister of Goa, was not\neven present in France when the deal was signed.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    &#8220;Forget presence, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had\nnot even been prepared for the prime ministers announcement\n(about the deal) and was caught off-guard. What we understand\nis that he (Parrikar) did not even know a deal has been\nnegotiated, signed and agreed upon,&#8221; She said.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><br style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"\/><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(56, 54, 54); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">    The Congress spokesperson said her party expects\nParrikar, who held the defence portfolio from November 2014 to\nMarch 2017, to answer questions related to the deal.<\/span><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:-The Congress today accused the central government of stonewalling questions over the Rafale fighter deal, saying there was a &#8220;conspiracy of silence&#8221; and an attempt to &#8220;bypass the national interest&#8221;. 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A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph Monday said it will hear the PIL filed by lawyer Vineet Dhanda, who is seeking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54956,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-to-decide-on-cbi-inquiry-into-rafale-deal-today","url_meta":{"origin":53701,"position":2},"title":"SC to decide on CBI inquiry into Rafale deal today","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"December 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is set to pronounce its verdict on Friday\u00a0seeking a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe on\u00a036 Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation.\u00a0 The verdict will be declared by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.\u00a0Senior Air Force officers had to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Rafale-deal2.jpg?fit=1064%2C700&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Rafale-deal2.jpg?fit=1064%2C700&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Rafale-deal2.jpg?fit=1064%2C700&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Rafale-deal2.jpg?fit=1064%2C700&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Rafale-deal2.jpg?fit=1064%2C700&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":58009,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/chronology-of-events-in-rafale-fighter-jets-deal-case","url_meta":{"origin":53701,"position":3},"title":"Chronology of events in Rafale fighter jets deal case.","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"November 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Following is the chronology of events in the Rafale fighter jets deal in which the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected review petitions against its verdict giving clean chit to the Narendra Modi government. -Dec 30, 2002: Defence Procurement Procedures (DPP) adopted to streamline process -Aug 28, 2007: Ministry of Defence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Corporate Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Corporate Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/corporate-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":55999,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/rahul-gandhi-expresses-regret-over-his-remarks-on-rafale-verdict-in-supreme-court","url_meta":{"origin":53701,"position":4},"title":"Rahul Gandhi expresses regret over his remarks on Rafale verdict in Supreme Court","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"April 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Congress president Rahul Gandhi expressed regret in the Supreme Court on Monday over his remarks in connection with the Rafale judgment which the apex court had said was \"incorrectly attributed\" to it. The apex court on April 15 had given a categorical clarification that in its Rafale judgment there was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/rahul-gandhi.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":55572,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/documents-related-to-rafale-case-deal-stolen-from-defence-ministry","url_meta":{"origin":53701,"position":5},"title":"Documents related to Rafale case deal stolen from Defence Ministry","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"March 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0The government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that documents related to the Rafale fighter jet deal have been stolen from the Defence Ministry and threatened The Hindu newspaper with the Official Secrets Act for publishing articles based on them. Those who put documents on the Rafale deal in the public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/rafael-case-300x158.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6H5Bf-dY9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}