Word: kher
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...government officials and three businessmen have been arrested and charged with violations of the Official Secrets Act and criminal conspiracy against the government. Several of them were officials in the defense and commerce ministries, and three men held key positions in the Prime Minister's secretariat. Among them: T.N. Kher, the personal assistant to P.C. Alexander, a top aide to both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and one of the country's most respected civil servants. Alexander, who was not connected to the espionage activity, resigned after accepting "moral responsibility" for the leakage of hundreds of files from his office...
...government is unlikely to disclose what secrets were compromised. But in his position close to the Prime Minister's office, Kher would have had access to all the secret files concerning defense, foreign policy, nuclear power and the entire range of official activity. The Hindustan Times, New Delhi's largest English-language daily, reported that documents handed over to foreign agents from the Defense Ministry "staggered the imagination of investigating officials." Said a senior investigator: "The security system and our vital papers have been stripped clean...