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The Scam That Shook a Nation
The Nagarwala ScandalBy Rasheed Kidwai, Prakash PatraNarrated by Adwait KarambelkarLength9h 24m
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On 24 May 1971, based on a telephone call purportedly from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her secretary P.N. Haksar, the chief cashier at the Parliament Street branch of the State Bank of India handed over Rs 60 lakh to a stranger posing as the PM's courier. The money was supposedly meant for secret operations in East Pakistan. When the chief cashier approached the PMO for a receipt, he was told that neither Haksar nor the PM had given any such instructions. He had been duped.
Within a few hours, the Delhi Police recovered the cash and caught the man responsible for the heist, a former army captain-Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala. Subsequent events-which included a botched police investigation, bungling by the lower judiciary, mysterious deaths of the accused and the principal investigator, and Indira Gandhi's inexplicable silence-led to the rise of several conspiracy theories.
Based on police records, press reports, depositions before the Justice Jaganmohan Reddy Commission and its report, The Scam That Shook a Nation is the first authoritative work on the scam, its investigation and its afterlife as a study in political corruption.
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Rating★★★ 3.0 (32)
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GenreTrue Crime, Politics and Government
Length9 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byAdwait Karambelkar
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 19, 2024
LanguageEnglish
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