NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister, P,V .Narasimha Rao, has virtually closed the door on the government’s enquiry into the identity of the Indian lawyer who handed over a note on Bofors to Madhavsinh Solanki in Switzerland three months ago.
He declared, at his first formal press conference after more than a year in office, that the Central Bureau of Investigation had come up against a “blank wall” in its attempts to track down the mysterious lawyer. When confronted with a question on this controversial issue, which had led to the resignation of the then external affairs minister, Rao said, “I had not made any promise to find the lawyer, The CBI was making enquiries, but it has not been possible for the CBI to find out the name of the lawyer and the matter ends there. Rao went so far as to defend the CBI to track down the lawyer, saying it was very difficult to find “someone” who had landed over a note to “someone else” in a foreign country.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 10, 1994
