After the Supreme Court dismissed a reviewpetition seeking a probe into the Rafale fighter aircraft deal, former IndianAir Force (IAF) Chief BS Dhanoa on said that the controversy related to it was"created to gain petty political gains" and reiterated that Rafale isa good aircraft which is a game-changer

In an exclusive interview to Zee News, Dhanoa said,"Rafale is a game-changer. The whole controversy was created to gain pettypolitical gains."

A three-judge bench presided by Chief Justice of India (CJI)Ranjan Gogoi and comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph onThursday passed the order on a batch of petitions seeking review of itsDecember 14, 2018, verdict which had upheld purchase of 36 Rafale jets by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi-led government from France.

Justice Kaul, while reading the judgement, said that thereview petition is without merit and thus, gave a clean chit to the government.

On the top court's verdict, the ex-IAF chief further saidthat the cost negotiation committee was headed by deputy chief of Air Force andeverything was done correctly.

"The cost negotiating committee for this particulardeal was headed by the then Deputy Chief and they have done a wonderful job.They went into all aspects. Ultimately, security forces are sufferer in suchcontroversies," he said.

The petitions in the case had demanded a CBI probe into thepurchase of Rafale jets. After the Supreme Court dismissed petitions seekingcourt-monitored probe into Rafale fighter jet deal, saying that there was nooccasion to doubt the decision-making process in the deal, review petitionswere filed by former union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie, lawyerPrashant Bhushan and others against the judgement.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, apart from the Rafale deal verdict,two other important cases - petitions challenging entry of women into theSabarimala Temple and the contempt case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi -were also delivered.