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| Post-mortem on Shastri |
| Post-mortem on Shastri could have been done: Kuldip Nayar
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| INDIA
, 9-August-2009
9:3:3 AM |
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With a number of conspiracy theories doing the rounds on whether a post mortem was conducted on former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, senior journalist Kuldip Nayar who was part of the delegation to Tashkent has said no autopsy was done but felt such a procedure could have been undertaken.
"No post-mortem was conducted," Nayar said when asked whether any such medical procedure was undertaken in the USSR following the death of Shastri in Tashkent, where he had gone to meet Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan in 1966.
On January 11, 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent declaration, he died under mysterious circumstances. Asked if it was a mistake on the part of the government not to have conducted a post-mortem as there were several conspiracy theories circulating, Nayar said, "I never thought of it (post-mortem) then. We were shown the body and it was brought back in a plane. But, now to think of it, the post-mortem could have been conducted."
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