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Snapshot of the day

February 18, 2025

Siddharth Varadarajan

The Supreme Court today granted bail to Christian Michel, accused of involvement in the Agusta Westland helicopter scam, six years and three months after the British businessman was sent to Tihar jail. His trial has yet to begin but he has already served close to the maximum prison time he would have been sentenced to if convicted.

With the the CBI under Modi unable or unwilling to move forward with the Agusta Westland case in all this time, it is clear that its investigation was driven by politics rather than hard evidence. “[The way you are going on right