Amitabh and Ajitabh in London

Amitabh and Ajitabh in London Court, fighting for Bofor Case 1990-1991.The backlash began in the mid-80s when, following the assassination of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, he tried his hand at politics. As a result of his huge popularity, not to mention his close association with the Gandhi family, he was elected to parliament with a huge majority in his home city of Allahabad. But the stint in politics didn't last long: he was implicated by a newspaper in the Bofors scandal, which involved millions of pounds of kickbacks allegedly being paid to senior politicians, officials and arms agents as a bribe for the import of weapons.In 1990 and 1991, the new government headed by V.P. Singh was obsessed by Bofors. Letter Rogatories were sent to Switzerland, assorted investigators made several trips between Delhi and Geneva and much noise was generated. But nothing came of the investigations.Nothing happened till the spring of 1987, when Swedish Radio, which was investigating the Bofors company, revealed that Bofors had paid bribes to secure the Indian deal. This announcement created a mild stir in India, largely because there was already a controversy over another defence deal (the HDW submarine deal). But the Opposition scented blood when the Rajiv Gandhi government suddenly began to overreact. Instead of simply denying the charge of corruption, it made the wholly unnecessary claim that there could be no question of bribes because there had been no agents in the deal. When the charges persisted, the government fell back on a destablisation theory; the allegations, it said, were part of a foreign conspiracy to destabilise India. Inevitably, this hysterical overreaction convinced the Opposition that something was amiss.

With the government on the defensive, it became open season. All kinds of irresponsible theories, completely unsupported by any evidence, featured in the press. One version had it that Rajiv's friend, Amitabh Bachchan, had taken the bribe. This was extended by The Indian Express to argue that the bribe had been routed through the non-resident Inlaks group, on the tenuous grounds that Amitabh's sister-in-law had a sister whose husband worked for Inlaks.

Even while these charges were being flung around, The Hindu managed to procure documents suggesting that contrary to Bofors' claims, commissions had been paid. One recipient of these commissions was a company called Pitco.

According to the Bofors files secured by The Hindu, the mailing address for Pitco cheques was 'care of G.P. Hinduja, New Zealand House, Haymarket, London.'

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[JaiShriRam44]

@ anshulncp is a fucking chutiya of congress party. He can lick tatti of Indira Ghazi if offered on a plate. Ignore this bastard madarchod.

[bhs3336]

bofors

[dannyboywwe]

@m2u2m2u Holy shit. You guys have mental issues. Amitabh is innocent!



[bjornsiborgsi]

@m2u2m2u ooooyy!!! keep your fucking hatred in your diaries to show to your mother and children. you are an angry dangerous sikh who is preaching hate. you have a terrorist mentality and probably a psychopath. door raho. i hope you show your children a different set of ideals.

[anshulncp]

@mycommentable u stupid nri. u just tought what ever ur illitrate parents told u. u r far away frm facts. u stupid scoundrals . u r just like cat. scrathing pols. u stupid idiot

[jagtawar]

@anshulncp

November 84 was a Genocide in which only Sikhs got killed and not a single hindu was killed. It was a Genocide by Congress Govt to eliminate Sikhism and divide Sikhs and Hindus forever. Bhindrawala was a congressi too and was promoted by Indira .

[anshulncp]

@m2u2m2u well u should read before comment. u saying people in delhi saw amitabh to arose mob. idiot.

[anshulncp]

@jagtawar m again still not blaming sikhs i m blaming tht coward bhindrawala who was hiding in goldan temple and firing on forces then he left no option for forces to kill him inside the temple premise. when tarorrist came in akshardham temple and started killing people that time what should'd been done waiting outside and wait when they finish killing. cammon make a commonsense think u still hve some mind

[anshulncp]

@jagtawar i am not blaming anybody i m just blaming those basterd who killed indira without thinking what consequences sikhs would face.

imagine if the big holy muslim or hindu killed by any of them.that should hve been thought by those bastards. so many hindu and sikh killed by each other.

today is 21 century who care about religion.

[anshulncp]

@mycommentable --- if you are sikh from my country i feel proud-if u r indian sikh i feel proud-i feel proud when i see my countrymen anywhere in the world in any dress and in any culture and in any religion because in any circumstances they will be called a 'INDIAN' But when a madarchod/chutiya/harami in any circumstances in any dress and in any religion they think they are khalistani or TATTi_khani but they still considered a indian.no matter what those bastard they think or understand.

[anshulncp]

I hate all those sikhs who still support khalistan and should be shot in their ass like bhindrawala. mother fuckers killed several innocent people in air India flight 182 kanishk.