Accusing the NDA government of misleading the Supreme Court, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the multi-million dollar Rafale fighter deal.

"A defence deal worth Rs 60,000 crore that will leave the country with only 36 aircraft, as against 126 aircraft contracted for under the UPA, cannot go unchallenged or unexamined," Chidambaram told reporters here at the party office.