The government will inquire into the documents that allegedly link the Union commerce minister. Mr Arun Nehru with the controversial Bofors gun deal. The Prime Minister. Mr V.P. Singh said this while returning from Ahmedabad, in response to a question about demand from some quarters for Mr Nehru’s resignation following the publication of documents linking him with the Bofors deal.
The Prime Minister said, “When a document is there it has to be inquired into. We have asked the Sweden for all the documents and they will all be examined. Asked when the government hoped to provide information on the recipients of the Bofors commission, Mr Singh said the government was proceeding in that direction adding that the previous government had even been unable to freeze the Swiss bank accounts into which the commission had been paid.
The Prime Minister said that although some people hid appealed to the courts in Zurich regarding the accounts the courts had rejected their appeals and upheld the claims of the Indian government. Asked whether his government will bring back into the country the homes paid by Bofors as commission in the Howitzer deal he reapplied we will do whatever the lay of the land dictates”.
INDOPAK RELATIONS responding to a question about a tension on the Indo-Pak order the Prime Minister said that things neither seemed to have nor malised after the shelling incident of the past few weeks.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 7, 1990
