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Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers |
| Author Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 264 | |
| Cover: PAPERBACK | |
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8.5x5.5 inch |
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Weight 250 gm |
| Edition: 2024 | |
| ISBN: 9789356998629 | |
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HBR420 |
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I am the
PM of India Sme. Indira Gandhi speaking. As my secretary has just now informed
you, Rs 60 lakh is urgently required in Bangladesh for an important secret
work. Get it ready quickly. I am sending my courier. At the place indicated by
Haksar, hand over the money to him. How will I be able to identify the person?
Malhotra asked. "The person will talk to you in code words and will say,
"I am Bangladesh ka babu." You reply. "I am Bar-at-Law." By
this you will be assured that he is my courier. Thereafter, you proceed as he
says. After delivering the money, come straight to my house and you will get a
receipt Then the line went dead. On 24 May 1971, after receiving a purported
telephone call from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her secretary, P.N.
Haksar, the chief cashier at the Parliament Street branch of the State Bank of
India handed over Rs 60 lakh meant for secret operations in East Pakistan to
the PM's courier. When the chief cashier approached the PMO for a receipt, he
was told that neither Haksar nor the PM had given any such instruction or sent
anyone. He had been duped. Within a few hours, Delhi Police managed to recover
most of the cash and arrest the man responsible for the heist: former army
captain Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala. Subsequent events a botched police
investigation, bungling by the lower judiciary and the mysterious deaths of the
accused and the principal investigator-and Indira Gandhi's inexplicable silence
through it all launched several conspiracy theories. She would later clarify,
'A section of the people were occupied in manufacturing this kind of propaganda
day in and day out, and I did not pay much attention.' This book, based on
extensive research, police records, press reports, depositions before the
Justice Jaganmohan Reddy Commission and its report, is the first authoritative
work on the case, its investigation and its afterlife as 'the scam that shook a
nation'.
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