Ex-R&AW official on Indira Gandhi’s murder

He saw one Sikh policeman and one Hindu policeman with sten-guns, and knew Indira Gandhi would be assassinated…

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00:00Mrs. Gandhi will be assassinated within 10 days.

00:03This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.

00:30This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.

00:5021st of actually October, 10 days before Mrs. Gandhi was assassinated, I was coming

01:14from Kerala play site on Akbar road.

01:16I just about to take left turn on Savdarjang road towards Gymkhana club, I see two policemen,

01:24one Sikh and one Hindu.

01:25Savdarjang road is where the Prime Minister's home is.

01:27And one Akbar road is his office.

01:29So that confluence, there's a corner roundabout.

01:32And at that time, I saw two policemen, one Sikh and one Hindu, carrying stain guns.

01:38My wife was sitting in front of me and my son and daughter, my son still remembers what

01:42I said.

01:43I said, who has brought the Sikh?

01:45This is the easiest.

01:46Because I knew that they were withdrawn.

01:48And it was a sudden shock.

01:49I said, this is the easiest and the surest way of Mrs. Gandhi getting assassinated.

01:54So next morning I come to office, it was 22nd of October.

02:00Then I started writing a note in hand.

02:03And then this, I saw this thing.

02:05I said, Mrs. Gandhi will be assassinated within 10 days.

02:10This is the easiest and surest way I wrote.

02:12Please do the following thing.

02:15Please remove these Sikhs forthwith, because tomorrow will be too late.

02:18I did not know how, when they will be killed.

02:21Then again I said, please inquire as to how they were brought and whom they have brought.

02:25So I have written that note.

02:26I told my secretary, Sita Lakshmi, please prepare the envelope on that night to be opened

02:31by the addressee only.

02:35Then I thought that if they kill her today, then I will be held up that I was a part of

02:41the conspiracy and I am trying to do my Peshwandi.

02:45Then I said, Sita, I'll hand over personally to secretary to go.

02:47Then I shredded that thing.

02:49But you weren't the only one.

02:52Already an SOP was in place that the Sikh bodyguards had to be taken off.

02:57You've written about that.

02:58But Mrs. Gandhi brought them back.

03:00And then there was, Mr. Kao had said that two Sikh bodyguards not together at the same

03:06time.

03:07And then even that SOP was broken.

03:09I mean, a series of mistakes.