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Watering the Stock. With public and Parliament clamoring for the truth, Nehru reluctantly appointed a Bombay judge to make a special inquiry. Testimony brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...
Daily Worship. Last week Nehru was doing what he could to repair his government's damaged prestige. He admitted "improprieties" existed (but insisted that Krishnamachari had not the smallest part in it that he could see), and ordered formal proceedings against Patel and the two insurance corporation officials who swung the deal. Federal police roused Promoter Mundhra at dawn from the $30-a-day prince's suite of New Delhi's Claridge's Hotel and hauled him off to jail on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forging false stock certificates...
...last week a 28-year-old Shakta named Odia Patel, clad only in a loincloth, walked into a magistrate's office in Bali, a district of Rajasthan in Northwest-Central India. In his hand he held a severed human nose and a bloodstained knife. Said he: "This is my wife's nose. I cut it off because she was unfaithful to me. And this is the knife I used...
...subject to any obligations the government might see fit to impose on them. This was strongly contested by the Christian members of the House, who maintained that constitutional rights apply equally to all, and that the right to propagate religion has no meaning without the right to convert. Maniben Patel, spinster daughter of the late Congress Party strongman, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, countered with a demand that the government investigate all Christian missionaries, accusing them of being responsible for damage to Hindu temples in Travancore-Cochin and of discriminating against Hindu nurses in Christian hospitals...
...Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...