NEW DELHI: Home Minister S.B Chavan today rebutted allegations that government was sculling the Bofors Probe and asserted that all information relating to the case would be furnished in parliament.
Chavany was reacting to the leader of the opposition, Jaipal Reddys reference in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, to the recent news item in a Swedish newspaper about former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi having received pay off in the Rs 1,700crore gun deal.
Reddy raised the mater in zero hour saying that the government was scuttling the probe as it was transferring probe officers and letting one of the main accused win Chaddha depose in London instead of in India.
Amidst loud protests from Congress (I) benches Reddy said it appeared that government was sabotaging in probe. To this, the home minister replied that government was not running away or shying from discussing Bofors and as soon as the business advisory committee allotted time for a discussion government would come with all the facts before the house.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 6, 1992
