Expressing delight over the final exoneration of Amitabh Bachchan's name in the Bofors Gun case, his wife and Samajwadi Party (SP) lawmaker Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday said the truth had finally come out in the open.
"Whatever news that you have published today we knew all that 25 years ago, but justice takes its own time, and god has its own time to reveal the truth, and today, the truth has come out before everyone, what else do we want," she said.
In an interview that appears on the website hoot.org, former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the person (Sweden's Deep Throat) who leaked over 350 documents to Indian journalist Chitra Subramanian, who broke the story.
Lindstrom has revealed that there was no evidence to suggest that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had taken bribe in the Bofors deal.
However, he did not seem to have done much to prevent the cover up that followed in both India and Sweden to protect main accused Ottavio Quattrocchi, against whom, says Lindstrom, there was conclusive evidence.
Lindstrom also gives a clean chit to Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and his family, saying that the story against them was planted in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter by Indian investigators.
"They gave me a list of names to pursue, including the name of Amitabh Bachchan... During that trip to Sweden, the Indian investigators planted the Bachchan angle on DN,'' he says.
The Bofors case dates back to 1986, when Swiss arms manufacturer Bofors landed a 15 billion dollar contract to supply Howitzer Guns to India. A year later, Swiss media began reporting that the company had paid massive kickbacks to Indian politicians and defence officials.
Amitabha's wife and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan said she was happy that the truth has come out but wondered how 'you erase those things' that were written about him then.
"...but I want to know how to erase those things which were written about him then for which he resigned. How will you erase those things. This should serve as a lesson that nothing should be done in haste," the Rajya Sabha MP told reporters outside Parliament complex in the capital on Wednesday.
She said they knew the truth 25 years back. "Justice takes its own time and God has his own time to reveal the truth".
giving him a clean chit in the Bofors gun payoff scandal Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday said the accusations had led to years of 'anguish of petulant blame'.
In New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi, however, sought to downplay the controversy saying it is "not appropriate" if anybody believes whatever is "said by just one former police officer".
He said that no law in any country takes any decision on the basis of the statement of one police officer.
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