The Defence Ministry on Wednesday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in connection with the Rafale fighter jet case.

Earlier in the day, the Centre had sought permission to file the affidavit, which was granted by the apex court.

The government told the top court that documents filed by the petitioners seeking review of its Rafale deal verdict are sensitive to national security and relate to war capacity of the combat aircraft.

In its affidavit, the government said, the petitioners–former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan are guilty of leaking the sensitive information.

It said, petitioners are using unauthorisedly accessed documents to present selective and incomplete picture of internal deliberations on national security and defence.

The government said, unauthorised photocopy of Rafale documents adversely affected sovereignty, security and friendly relations with foreign nations. It said, internal probe is underway to find out the leakage.

The apex court is set to hear the review plea on the Rafale case on Thursday.

The Court was hearing petitions seeking review of its December 14th, 2018 verdict in which it gave a clean chit to the government in the deal with France for procurement of 36 Rafale jets.

In its verdict, the Supreme Court had dismissed pleas challenging the deal and seeking a Special Investigative Team (SIT)-led probe into the alleged irregularities in the deal.