The CAG has submitted its report on AgustaWestland chopper deal in which the Government auditor is understood to have raised questions over various aspects of the deal, including conduct of trials outside the country despite the Defence Ministry rejecting such a proposal twice.
The report on the Rs 3,600 crore deal for 12 VVIP choppers was finalised during the tenure of former CAG Vinod Rai and was submitted on April 25, over a month before incumbent Shashi Kant Sharma took over, sources said.
In its report, CAG is understood to have raised questions over holding trials of the two helicopter vendors — American Sikorsky and Anglo-Italian AgustaWestland — outside the country, sources said. The auditor is believed to have noted that trials should have been held in India since helicopters to be procured were to be operated within the country.