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Bofors appeal: NDA delayed and UPA denied -
Ritu Sarin, Indian Express
For all the UPA vs NDA noise over the Bofors case in the wake of Sten Lindstrom’s interview, what neither side will say is what lies buried in voluminous case files and notings by key CBI investigators and law officers. These reveal that between 2004-2006, the CBI was forced to toe the line of its political masters. So much so that it watched as two crucial court judgments in the Bofors case went unchallenged in the Supreme Court. |
Smoking Guns: Eating out of a foreign hand -
Chitra Subramaniam-Duella, Outlook
Whichever way you roll the dice, you’ll land on this question—why did Bofors pay Quattrocchi? We knew that in 1989. No Raksha Mantri to date has given the country a reply to that question. But more of that in some time. One thing is certain. We never lose an opportunity to let ourselves down. The other, even more certain thing is that it is never our fault. The evil world conspires against us innocents to ensure that we remain corrupt, malnourished and hungry.
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Bachchan’s Bofors escape -
Nistula Hebbar, Financial Express
In the resurrection of the ghost of Bofors, the only protagonist of that saga who got the opportunity to walk off unsullied into the great white light of absolution was legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. A legend in his lifetime, for many of the new generation watching his press conference last week, terming the clean chit to him as “too little too late”... |
Congress buried Bofors -
Pioneer
Going by the Congress’s reaction to the fresh revelations in the Bofors scandal, it would appear that the BJP-led NDA Government had shown little interest in pursuing the case while the Congress had all along played clean. This is farcical. The Congress wants us to believe that in the 10 years of non-Congress regimes after the scandal deposed Rajiv Gandhi’s Government, nobody did anything to book those who had received bribes in the Bofors deal. |
Why the Bofors scandal must never be forgotten -
Venky Vembu, FP
The first sensational revelation in the Bofors scandal was made on 16 April 1987, more than 25 years ago, when the Swedish National Radio reported that bribes had been paid to top Indian politicians to secure the howitzer gun contract. The median age in India is 26 years, which means that about half of India grew up in a post-Bofors scandal era, and may not know (or care for) the intricate details of what the case was all about. |
Cong, not NDA, killed Bofors probe: Jaitley -
Times of India
Denying that the NDA government did not do enough to bring the guilty in the Bofors scam to justice, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley alleged that it was the Congress which killed the case. Jaitley, in a TV interview, backed Jaswant Singh's statement that a judicial probe be ordered into the matter despite the difficulties involved.
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Cong govts or those supported by the party 'killed' Bofors case: Jaitley -
New Delhi, Apr 29 - BJP leader Arun Jaitley has said that the erstwhile NDA government made all efforts to bring the guilty to book in the Bofors scam and alleged that successive Congress-led governments or those supported by that party tried to "kill" the case. |
Sonia not figuring in Bofors scam intriguing: RSS -
New Delhi, Apr 28 - RSS has said it is intriguing that Congress President Sonia Gandhi has not figured in the Bofors scam though Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi was close to her even as the Sangh founthead charged successive governments with looking the other way in the scandal. |
The politics of Bofors -
Chitra Subramaniam-Duella, Mail Today
Sevanti Ninan, editor of The Hoot, shares credit with me for the recent revelations by Sten Lindstrom on the 25th anniversary of the Bofors-India story. I say this because Lindstrom's interview also raises some questions about the role of the fourth estate in a democracy and the expectations of whistleblowers who normally leak information to the media, protection of sources as well as protection of reporters.
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Bofors deal was a swindle -
Ashok Malik, Pioneer
It is unlikely that the demand the Bofors scandal be reinvestigated is going to get anywhere. The legal case is dead. Many of the dramatis personae, including key Bofors officials who paid the bribes, are dead. At best, there is scope for a commission to find out where exactly officials and investigators went wrong — or were deliberately made to go wrong. Indeed, there is a book waiting to be written on the subject, but that is another matter. |
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