Slowly the news trickled to the rest of India, A small section of India’s reluctant media came out with details of the allegations. The Indian authorities evidently had prior knowledge, presumably on the basis of its own intelligence sources, about the episode. They feared an adverse international reaction in the event of the knowledge spreading. The government authorities encouraged the Press Council of India to somehow save the country’s face on this sensitive matter. The PCI, in turn, drafted BG. Varghese and two others Vikram Rao and Jumna Dass Akhtar to go to Kashmir to perform a patriotic duty. Varghese standing and credibility public Akhtar dropped out. The only other member of the team was Vikram Rao, more a leftist trade unionist than a journalist.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 20, 1992
