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...year later all charges have been dropped against Mehndi. "Daler Mehndi and his brother look alike," says Punjab police Director-General A.A. Siddiqui. "That's where the confusion arose." Siddiqui rejects any suggestion of a police attempt to blackmail Mehndi. Meanwhile, the case continues against Mehndi's brother Shamsher. "The whole case is concocted," says Shamsher's lawyer, Rajvinder Singh Bains. "But the police are going ahead with it as a face-saving exercise...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...