Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, appearing for Haryana, told the Supreme Court that they have shown a "one-time magnanimity" and refused to grant a sanction to prosecute the professor.
The indigenous Tejas MK-1 LCA was missing from the Fire Power Demonstration after the entire fleet was grounded following a runway incident earlier this month.
This year’s edition of the exercise will involve 11,835 kg of Net Explosive Quantity (NEQ), with 277 weapons employed across 43 firing sequences against 23 designated targets.