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...police had hoped to take their distinguished prisoner quietly to a government tourist house in the nearby state of Haryana. Mrs. Gandhi, who has often described herself as an Indian Joan of Arc, blocked their plans with dismaying ease. When the procession stopped at a railroad crossing, her lawyer pointed out to the police that she could not be taken outside the federal territory of Delhi without a special order. Mrs. Gandhi perched herself on a fence and vowed, "I'm sitting here until they show me the court order." Eventually, the police gave up and took...
Appearing in court next morning, Mrs. Gandhi once more tormented her tormentors. Under Indian law, the court appearance is a mere formality. As police were using tear gas to break up demonstrations outside the courtroom, Mrs. Gandhi defiantly told the presiding magistrate that she would not ask for bail and preferred to remain in jail. Government lawyers hedged when the magistrate asked them, again and again: "What do you want? What exactly is your prayer?" The government was afraid to take the risk of jailing her, and after 80 minutes of courtroom waffling, the judge released...
...business activities. Some of her closest Cabinet-level associates have been arrested in scandals involving misappropriation of Congress Party funds. Last week, without mentioning any names, Home Minister Charan Singh said that "maybe" persons even higher would be arrested-and that left few short of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi herself. A few days later, her successor, Morarji Desai, was asked whether Mrs. Gandhi would be allowed a passport to travel abroad. "It is not easy to give a passport when investigations are going on," he answered. "Therefore, the passport may not be given...
Despite such pressures building around her, Mrs. Gandhi was cool and composed when she spoke with New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin and Stringer K.K. Sharma last week in the first interview she has granted to a foreign publication since her dramatic defeat six months ago. But she refused to answer any questions about specific cases before the courts and government commissions of inquiry on the ground that she might be held in contempt of court. Excerpts from the hour-long interview...
Indira does not seem to be vulnerable to charges of financial wrongdoing; she has a reputation for caution in her personal finances. But real trouble could come from official studies of abuses during the emergency. Asked if he planned to call Mrs. Gandhi as a witness, former Supreme Court Justice J.C. Shah, head of the most important panel, replied: "If I felt it necessary-and I feel that it is necessary-then I will call...