NEW DELHI: Noted Lawyer and Rajya Sabha member Ram Jethmalani claimed, in a statement issued recently, that the Swiss authorities are expected to reveal “within the next three or four days” the identity of those who pocketed the Bofors money.
At least one prominent name will be disclosed in the next few days, certainly before the Presidential poll. The Press and people could not have forgotten that in June 1987, I publicly accused the then Prime Minister and his friends of having pocketed a substantial part of the bribe, “Jethmalani said.
Keeping in view the Bofors scandal and the Solanki episode, the senior Supreme Court advocate put a series of questions to Presidential nominee Shankar Dayal Sharma to answer,
If the new evidence fully implicates those whom I have been accusing for the last five years, what role will the Presidential Play? Will he ensure that the law will take its course even against those for whom we have sycophantically created trusts and memorials?” he asked.
Former Foreign Minister Madhavsinh Solanki had virtually acted as a courier but the Government had chosen not to proceed with the investigation, he said “Has Sharma even been exercised) by this disgraceful episode and will he use his power under Article 84 of the Constitution to the truth and share it with the nation?” Jethmalani asked. He also raised the question of the St Kitts forgery. He said that Rao as Foreign Minister helped: get the forged documents authenticated by an Indian embassy official. The Prime Minister’s name is mentioned by the.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 17, 1992
