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K K Tewari alleges threat to life

Former Union minister K K Tewari has alleged that there was a deliberate attempt to 'eliminate' him before the final report of the Jain Commission was published.

Tewari said the sudden withdrawal of security till May 26 had made him a "sitting duck for vultures of violence". "Now I and my children are at the tender mercies of malevolent forces who have been trying to eliminate me and harm my children for years."

He said he had participated in the Jain Commission sittings every day and was a 'major' witness in the probe into the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. He claimed he was able to give new dimensions and cross-examinations of former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao and Chandra Swami to the conspiracy.

The former minister said Rajendra Jain, another important witness and a former follower of Chandra Swami who was believed to have passed on sensitive information to the commission during in-camera sittings, had been killed and the same forces were targetting him (Tewari) too, he alleged.

He said there was an attempt on his life at his home in July 1995 just before he was to have made a deposition before the Commission. There were dozens of letters written to him about telephonic threats to his life.

UNI

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