India, Aug. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday effectively brought the curtain down on the politically-sensitive Bofors pay-off case by dismissing the only surviving appeal against the 2005 Delhi High Court judgment that quashed all criminal proceedings against the three Hinduja brothers and Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.

A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran declined to grant any further time to advocate and BJP leader Ajay K Agrawal, who had challenged the high court verdict, observing that it was not inclined to adjourn a matter that had remained pending since 2018 only on the question how a private individual's appeal could survive after the investigating agency's own challenge had already been dismissed.

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