Bofors Case Rajiv Gandhi Government

The CBI today said it would look into the "facts and circumstances" of the Bofors scam mentioned by private detective Michael Hershmam, who alleged that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government had sabotaged his investigation

In a fresh turn of events, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal filed by BJP leader Ajay Kumar Agarwal challenging a 2005 Delhi High Court order quashing charges against Europe-based industrialists -- the Hinduja brothers -- in the politically-sensitive Bofors pay-off scam case.

Indicating a resurrection of the decades-old Bofors arms scandal involving allegations of kickbacks to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and other top officials when the Congress was in power, the CBI has told a group of lawmakers it can reopen investigation into the case.

An application has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case after a fresh media report suggesting a financial quid pro quo for the Rs 1,437 crore Howitzer gun deal in 1986.

The Public Accounts Committee or PAC has asked the Defence Ministry to trace and share with it all missing files related to the Bofors scandal, according to its two members.

The decades-old Bofors case returned to dog the Congress in parliament today as the ruling BJP raised Swedish chief investigator Sten Lindstrom's revelations on the role of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Bofors arms case involving allegations of kickbacks to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and other top officials should be reopened and the CBI should ask for the government's permission to go to the Supreme Court for it, a group of MPs said at a meeting yesterday.

A majority of the members of a parliamentary committee today asked the CBI to move the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's 2005 order quashing proceedings in the Bofors case, two lawmakers on the panel said.

Once a key member of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's "shouting brigade" with Mamata Banerjee during the Bofors controversy and a former Union Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government, Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is also a linguist.

The CBI today said it would look into the "facts and circumstances" of the Bofors scam mentioned by private detective Michael Hershmam, who alleged that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government had sabotaged his investigation

In a fresh turn of events, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal filed by BJP leader Ajay Kumar Agarwal challenging a 2005 Delhi High Court order quashing charges against Europe-based industrialists -- the Hinduja brothers -- in the politically-sensitive Bofors pay-off scam case.

Indicating a resurrection of the decades-old Bofors arms scandal involving allegations of kickbacks to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and other top officials when the Congress was in power, the CBI has told a group of lawmakers it can reopen investigation into the case.

An application has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case after a fresh media report suggesting a financial quid pro quo for the Rs 1,437 crore Howitzer gun deal in 1986.

The Public Accounts Committee or PAC has asked the Defence Ministry to trace and share with it all missing files related to the Bofors scandal, according to its two members.

The decades-old Bofors case returned to dog the Congress in parliament today as the ruling BJP raised Swedish chief investigator Sten Lindstrom's revelations on the role of then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Bofors arms case involving allegations of kickbacks to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and other top officials should be reopened and the CBI should ask for the government's permission to go to the Supreme Court for it, a group of MPs said at a meeting yesterday.

A majority of the members of a parliamentary committee today asked the CBI to move the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court's 2005 order quashing proceedings in the Bofors case, two lawmakers on the panel said.

Once a key member of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's "shouting brigade" with Mamata Banerjee during the Bofors controversy and a former Union Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government, Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is also a linguist.