Opinion November 18, 1977, Forty Years Ago: Summons to Indira Gandhi
The Shah Commission was officially stated that in the absence of any such intimation for which no time limit has been fixed by the commission, it is presumed that Mrs Gandhi will present herself for examination
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Summons to Indira
The Shah Commission has not received any intimation from Indira Gandhi confirming her appearance before it. It was officially stated that in the absence of any such intimation for which no time limit has been fixed by the commission, it is presumed that Mrs Gandhi will present herself for examination. Tomorrow, the commission will take up for hearing the arrest of Bhimsen Sachar and seven other freedom-flghters during the Emergency and then adjourn till Monday.
PNB head grilled
The Shah Commission heard how the chairman of the Punjab National Bank, T.R. Tuli, an Emergency appointee of Indira Gandhi, had personally intervened to ensure that a newspaper “connected with the prime minister”, a firm partly owned by the brother of Om Mehta, Minister of State for Home Affairs, and Maruti Limited, were given special treatment in the matter of loans. As a result of these these transactions, which Tuli hustled through because of the “high connections” of the people involved, the Punjab National Bank lost a sum of over Rs 16 lakh. Tuli was called to the witness stand thrice to explain why he had short-circuited normal procedures. Justice Shah asked him if he was trying to repay the favour of appointing him bank chairman, overruling the recommendation of the Finance Ministry.
Dividing states
D.P. Mishra, former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, warned the Centre against embarking on the task of redivision of existing states “light-heartedly”. If the Centre was appointing another states reorganisation commission, it should not overlook the possibility of the reorganisation of the present states leading to great agitation in most of the country. He was commenting on the views expressed by Jayaprakash Narayan and published in a section of the press that the Union Home Ministry was preparing a plan for the redivision of existing states.
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