No one was ever convicted in the Bofors case. The last appeal was dismissed on 6 August 2026, and who received the money was never decided in court.
Justices Pardiwala and Chandran dismissed Ajay Agrawal's appeal against the 2005 Delhi High Court judgment. All Indian litigation is over.
The Supreme Court refused to condone a 4,522-day delay in filing it, so the agency's own challenge to the 2005 ruling ended.
A Delhi court let the CBI withdraw the case after extradition failed. Ottavio Quattrocchi died in 2013 and was never tried in India.
The accounts were defrozen at the government's request. The Supreme Court ordered status quo on 16 January, but the money was withdrawn that day.
Justice R.S. Sodhi quashed all proceedings against the Hinduja brothers and AB Bofors, saying the prosecution had not made out a case.
The Delhi High Court cleared the late Prime Minister, who died in 1991 and never faced trial. A forgery charge was directed against the company.
The CBI named Win Chadha, Ottavio Quattrocchi, S.K. Bhatnagar, Martin Ardbo and AB Bofors, nine years after the FIR.
He left for Kuala Lumpur and never returned. Efforts to extradite him through Malaysia and Argentina failed.
A leak from Swedish police material led Swedish Radio to report that Bofors paid commissions to win the Indian contract.
A ₹1,437-crore contract for 410 FH-77B howitzers. The guns later served at Kargil. The question is whether commissions influenced the choice.
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