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'కేంద్రం తప్పుదోవ పట్టించింది..' 'కాదు పిటిషనర్లే!' - పిటిషనర్లు
రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై సుప్రీంకోర్టును కేంద్రం తప్పుదోవ పట్టించిందని పేర్కొన్నారు పిటిషనర్లు. దీనిపై కేంద్రం మరో అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేసింది. పిటిషనర్లు దాఖలు చేసిన వ్యాజ్యం నిరాధారమైందని ఆరోపించింది. రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై దాఖలైన రివ్యూ పిటిషన్లను అత్యున్నత న్యాయస్థానం శుక్రవారం విచారించనుంది.
'కేంద్రం తప్పుదోవ పట్టించింది.. కాదు పిటిషనర్లే!'
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Published : May 10, 2019, 12:33 AM IST
రఫేల్ యుద్ధ విమానాల కొనుగోలు ఒప్పందం కేసులో అనుకూల తీర్పు కోసం సుప్రీంకోర్టును కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం తప్పుదోవ పట్టించిందని పిటిషనర్లు ఆరోపించారు.
రఫేల్ తీర్పు సమీక్ష కోసం పిటిషన్లు దాఖలు చేసిన మాజీ కేంద్ర మంత్రులు యశ్వంత్ సిన్హా, అరుణ్ శౌరి, న్యాయవాది ప్రశాంత భూషణ్లు గురువారం సుప్రీంకోర్టులో అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేశారు. అత్యున్నత న్యాయస్థానం డిసెంబర్ 14న ఇచ్చిన తీర్పును పునఃపరిశీలించాలని అఫిడవిట్లో పేర్కొన్నారు. తప్పుడు అధారాలు, అసత్య సమాచారాలను కోర్టుకు కేంద్రం సమర్పించిందని, వాటి ఆధారంగా ఉన్నత న్యాయస్థానం తీర్పునిచ్చిందని తెలిపారు.
పిటిషనర్ల అఫిడవిట్లో నిజం లేదు
రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై పిటిషనర్లు దాఖలు చేసిన అఫిడవిట్ను కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం తిప్పికొట్టింది. పిటిషనర్లు చేసిన ఆరోపణల్లో ఏమాత్రం నిజం లేదని చెబుతూ అదనంగా మరో అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేసింది. రికార్డుల్లో ఉన్నట్టే ఆధారాలను కోర్టుకు అప్పగించామంది కేంద్రం.
రఫేల్ విచారణలో భాగంగా కొంత మంది అధికారులు కోర్టును తప్పుదోవ పట్టించారని, వారిపై చర్యలు చేపట్టాలంటూ దాఖలైన వ్యాజ్యాన్ని కొట్టివేయాలని కేంద్రం సుప్రీంను కోరింది. ఆ ఆరోపణలు నిరాధారమని వెల్లడించింది. పలు మీడియా నివేదికలు, అసంపూర్ణ సమాచారాల ఆధారంగా వ్యాజ్యం దాఖలు చేయడం సరికాదని కేంద్రం అభిప్రాయపడింది.
రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై దాఖలైన రివ్యూ పిటిషన్ను శుక్రవారం ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి జస్టిస్ రంజన్ గొగొయ్ నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం విచారించనుంది.
రఫేల్ యుద్ధ విమానాల కొనుగోలు ఒప్పందం కేసులో అనుకూల తీర్పు కోసం సుప్రీంకోర్టును కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం తప్పుదోవ పట్టించిందని పిటిషనర్లు ఆరోపించారు.
రఫేల్ తీర్పు సమీక్ష కోసం పిటిషన్లు దాఖలు చేసిన మాజీ కేంద్ర మంత్రులు యశ్వంత్ సిన్హా, అరుణ్ శౌరి, న్యాయవాది ప్రశాంత భూషణ్లు గురువారం సుప్రీంకోర్టులో అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేశారు. అత్యున్నత న్యాయస్థానం డిసెంబర్ 14న ఇచ్చిన తీర్పును పునఃపరిశీలించాలని అఫిడవిట్లో పేర్కొన్నారు. తప్పుడు అధారాలు, అసత్య సమాచారాలను కోర్టుకు కేంద్రం సమర్పించిందని, వాటి ఆధారంగా ఉన్నత న్యాయస్థానం తీర్పునిచ్చిందని తెలిపారు.
పిటిషనర్ల అఫిడవిట్లో నిజం లేదు
రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై పిటిషనర్లు దాఖలు చేసిన అఫిడవిట్ను కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం తిప్పికొట్టింది. పిటిషనర్లు చేసిన ఆరోపణల్లో ఏమాత్రం నిజం లేదని చెబుతూ అదనంగా మరో అఫిడవిట్ దాఖలు చేసింది. రికార్డుల్లో ఉన్నట్టే ఆధారాలను కోర్టుకు అప్పగించామంది కేంద్రం.
రఫేల్ విచారణలో భాగంగా కొంత మంది అధికారులు కోర్టును తప్పుదోవ పట్టించారని, వారిపై చర్యలు చేపట్టాలంటూ దాఖలైన వ్యాజ్యాన్ని కొట్టివేయాలని కేంద్రం సుప్రీంను కోరింది. ఆ ఆరోపణలు నిరాధారమని వెల్లడించింది. పలు మీడియా నివేదికలు, అసంపూర్ణ సమాచారాల ఆధారంగా వ్యాజ్యం దాఖలు చేయడం సరికాదని కేంద్రం అభిప్రాయపడింది.
రఫేల్ తీర్పుపై దాఖలైన రివ్యూ పిటిషన్ను శుక్రవారం ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి జస్టిస్ రంజన్ గొగొయ్ నేతృత్వంలోని ధర్మాసనం విచారించనుంది.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE" / PART MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "GEORGE STEVENS PRODUCTIONS/WARNER BROS./CRITERION
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Paris - 9 May 2019
1. Various of Paris's Pere Lachaise cemetery
2. The coffin of French-American WW2 veteran, Bernard Dargols, being carried into Paris' famed Pere Lachaise cemetery funeral room as a track from "Unforgettable" song by Nat King Cole plays in the background
3. Pole bearers place Dargols' coffin inside the funeral hall
4. Dargols' coffin
5. Recent portrait of Dargols with insignia from US Army second infantry division on his shirt
6. Coffin, Dargols' portrait and flowers
7. Bouquet written in French: To our dear friend Bernard, D-Day Overlord Association
8. Dargols' granddaughter Caroline Jolivet walks to the microphone to delivery her eulogy
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Jolivet, Bernard Dargols' Granddaughter:
"He had in mind that he had the chance to survive while so many of his brothers-in-arms, so many youngsters in the army, hadn't. And of course, he had lost some family members, so you know, everything that happened, that he realised coming back to Paris, figuring out what had happened during the war and the concentration, the camps. He never stopped questioning human nature and wondering how could such horrors, you know, happen."
10. Dargols' coffin next to black and white photo showing a younger Dargols and his late wife Francoise
11. Funeral service under way
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Jolivet, Bernard Dargols' Granddaughter:
"He kept true to what meant a lot for him. His battles against racism, until the end of his life, he would not stop being, you know, getting upset whenever he saw any types of racism anywhere. He just made sure that we would not forget what happened and just, his message was don't forget about your history so that you can, you know, build something."
BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE"
Brittany - 1944
13. Zoom in on STILL of Dargols in military uniform
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Paris - 9 May 2019
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Jolivet, Bernard Dargols' Granddaughter:
"I think, well, never take democracy for granted, dictatorship is always a bad solution. Violence, guns are always bad solutions. So keep democracy alive. Fight for democracy, for freedom, for peace. Always have that in mind. That's what I think he would have in his heart to pass along."
15. Various of attendees paying last respects to Dargols by touching his coffin
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ARCHIVE: La Garene-Columbes (Parisian suburb) - 8 May 2014
16. Close of Bernard Dargols, French-American Veteran
BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE"
Normandy - June 1944
17. Zoom in of STILL of Dargols wearing helmet and holding rifle
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ARCHIVE: La Garene-Columbes (Parisian suburb) - 8 May 2014
18. Dargols with his late wife, Francoise, and his granddaughter Caroline Jolivet
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Dargols, French-American Veteran:
"I wanted to fight. It doesn't look like it. If I look at myself in the mirror, I can't understand how I was so willing to fight, but I have the same... I think if I was 24 again, I would fight again."
GEORGE STEVENS: D-DAY TO BERLIN - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "GEORGE STEVENS PRODUCTIONS/WARNER BROS./CRITERION
Normandy - June 1944
20. Colour footage from WW2, tracking shot of Allied troops advancing in jeeps
BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE"
Normandy - June 1944
21. STILL of Dargols speaking to military policeman and man in civilian clothes
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ARCHIVE: La Garene-Columbes (Parisian suburb) - 8 May 2014
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Dargols, French-American Veteran
Dargols: "I wanted to kill so many Germans. I was not given the chance to kill one. I was, it's..."
Journalist: "You regret that?"
Dargols: "No, I don't regret it because I have so many friends, so many people not to be killed that it's sort of - my conscience is more at ease."
23. Copy of Dargols' biography (written by his granddaughter Caroline Jolivet) and photo of Dargols as young man on bookshelf
GEORGE STEVENS: D-DAY TO BERLIN - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "GEORGE STEVENS PRODUCTIONS/WARNER BROS./CRITERION
Normandy - June 1944
24. Various of colour footage of US soldiers driving in jeeps, French civilians cheering as US forces advance towards Paris
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ARCHIVE: La Garene-Columbes (Parisian suburb) - 8 May 2014
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Dargols, French-American Veteran
"I went into Paris, stopped at number 8 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, went into the yard, the big yard, left my jeep, went into the third floor. My mother cried, she was there. And, well, she hadn't seen me for six years, and I saw that she was alive."
BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE - MANDATORY ON-SCREEN COURTESY "BERNARD DARGOLS' FAMILY ARCHIVE"
Paris - August 1944
26. Zoom in on STILL of Dargols and his mother in Place des Vosges
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ARCHIVE: La Garene-Columbes (Parisian suburb) - 8 May 2014
27. Dargols and his granddaughter looking at family photos
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Bernard Dargols, French American Veteran
"I don't wish youngsters to be faced with the same tragedy as I was faced and not prepared to be a soldier. When in Fort Dix (in the US), they showed me that gun, that rifle rather, and they told me, you know, you just pull here the trigger and you kill one man - and, to me, to kill one man by just doing this was something not human."
29. Dargols with his wife and granddaughter Caroline
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Paris - 9 May 2019
30. Various of Pere Lachaise cemetery
STORYLINE
One more funeral, one less witness to the world's worst war.
Bernard Dargols lived almost long enough to join the celebrations next month marking 75 years since the D-Day, 75 years since he waded onto Omaha Beach as an American soldier to help liberate France from the Nazis who persecuted his Jewish family.
Just shy of his 99th birthday, Dargols died last week. To the strains of his beloved American jazz, he was laid to rest on Thursday at France's most famous cemetery, Pere Lachaise in Paris.
An ever-smaller number of veterans will stand on Normandy's shores on 6 June for D-Day's 75th anniversary. Many will salute fallen comrades from their wheelchairs. As each year passes, more firsthand witnesses to history are gone.
Four weeks from now, U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders will pay homage to the more than 2 million American, British, Canadian and other Allied forces involved in the D-Day operation on 6 June 1944, and the ensuing battle for Normandy that helped pave the way for Adolf Hitler's defeat.
Dargols outlived most of them, and knew the importance of sustaining their memory.
Until the end, Dargols battled complacency, intolerance and Holocaust deniers who claim that D-Day was "just a movie."
Normandy schoolteachers, veterans' families and military memorials are labouring against time to record survivors' stories for posterity.
In history's biggest amphibious invasion, on that fateful June 6, some 160,000 Allied forces came ashore to launch Operation Overlord to wrest Normandy from Nazi control.
More than 4,000 Allied forces were killed on that day alone.
Nearly half a million people were killed on both sides by the time the Allies liberated Paris in August 1944.
It's unclear exactly how many D-Day veterans are alive today.
The survivors are now in their 90s or 100s.
Of the 73,000 Americans who took part, just 30 are currently scheduled to come to France for this year's anniversary.
The U.S. Veterans Administration estimates that about 348 American World War II veterans die every day.
All but three of the 177 French forces involved in D-Day are gone.
Every day, the names of the departed accumulate, tweeted by veterans groups, published in local newspapers.
Dargols wanted to be in Normandy this year, it meant a lot to him.
His story is both unusual and emblematic: Born in France, he left Paris in 1938 for New York to learn his father's sewing machine trade. He watched from afar, sickened, as the Nazis occupied his homeland. His Jewish relatives were sent to camps, or fled in fear.
Determined to fight back but sceptical of French General Charles de Gaulle's resistance force, he joined the U.S. Army instead.
With the 2nd Infantry Division, Dargols sailed from Britain on 5 June and only made it to Normandy on 8 June, after three interminable days on choppy seas.
The road he took inland from Omaha Beach now carries his name.
The battle to wrest Normandy from the Nazis took longer than the Allies thought, but for Dargols the prize at the end was invaluable. When he made it to Paris, he went to his childhood apartment and found his mother - unexpectedly alive.
For four decades, he didn't talk much about the war. But as more and more survivors died, and at his granddaughter's urging, he realised the importance of speaking out and sharing his stories with schools and journalists.
Friends and family remembered him on Thursday as shy but courageous, a lover of oysters and pastrami sandwiches, known for his mischievous smile.
Caroline Jolivet, his granddaughter, told the Associated Press of his yearning for leaders who "bring people together".
Dargols would have had a clear message for the D-Day anniversary, she said: "Never take democracy for granted. Dictatorship is always a bad solution. Violence is always a bad solution. Keep democracy alive. Fight for democracy, for freedom, for peace."
Dargols himself worried about the day when all the veterans will be gone.
"It could start again," he wrote in his memoir. "We must be vigilant, at all times."
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