The infamous 1971 Nagarwala fraud case, in which an intelligence officer mimicked the voice of former prime minister Indira Gandhi to withdraw Rs 60 lakhs from a bank, is in the news again with the CIC telling the MHA to give an RTI applicant and IPS officer the details of evidence given by him during the probe.
An IPS officer Padam Rosha who deposed before the Reddy Commission, set by the Janata Party Government in 1978 to probe the matter, had sought the transcript of the evidence presented by him before the Commission, which was turned down by the Ministry.
The Ministry argued that according to the provisions of the RTI Act it was under no obligation to reveal the information which was more than 20 years old. The argument was turned down by the Commission saying it was "misleading."
The dramatic case which resembles the plot of a masala Bollywood film and described extensively in the Rohinton Mistry's novel "Such a Long Journey", dates back to May 1971 when India and Pakistan were on the verge of war because of alleged tacit Indian support to the Mukti Bahini.
During these tense times, intelligence officer Rustam Sohrab Nagarwala allegedly withdrew Rs 60 lakh from the State Bank of India, Parliament Street branch here, on May 24 1971.
The alleged modus operandi adopted by him was that of instructing the chief cashier, by mimicking the voice of Prime Minister Gandhi, to hand over the cash to a "Bangladeshi."
After the money was withdrawn by Nagarwala, who was reportedly involved in the intelligence activities in Bangladesh, was arrested and put in prison where he died under mysterious circumstances.
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