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Article: Five questions about the Rajiv murder.
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- New Indian Express (Chennai, India)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2009
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New Delhi, May 21 -- The commission set up before I had demitted office as Union law minister, under a sitting senior judge of the Supreme Court, Justice J S Verma (later CJI), to go into the security lapses leading to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, came to the conclusion that the security arrangements were adequate but the Congress party local leaders wantonly disrupted and broke these arrangements.
The commission urged an in-depth inquiry. The successor Narasimha Rao government declined to accept the recommendation, and the report was shelved. Instead the pro-LTTE circle in India began to lobby for a new commission to go into the conspiracy angle. A ...