Centre gives clean chit to Navin Chawla

Navin Chawla, I recall reading in some book, was also known as the Butcher of Turkman Gate, a monstrous Emergency-era incident, which I’m sure most of us know.

An excerpt from a chilling account of this man found here.

We now come to the most damning piece of evidence against Mr Chawla. Mr Batra, the Superintendent of Tihar Jail, told the commission that CBI and intelligence officials freely visited the jail and met the detenus on the orders of Mr Chawla. The commission observed that “though Shri Navin Chawla had no position in the jail hierarchy, he was exercising extra statutory control in jail matters. The Jail Superintendent told the commission that Mr Chawla had suggested the construction of some cells with asbestos roofs to ‘bake’ certain persons. A proposal to this effect was also processed but given up eventually due to certain technical reasons. Further, Mr Chawla had on one occasion suggested that certain troublesome detenus ’should be kept with the lunatics’.”

Little surprise that this man now stands exonerated; indeed, he’s given fresh lease to demolish continue as Election Commissioner, another vital fortress which only trusted lieutenants get to defend on behalf of the Dynasty.

By continuing Chawla, is the Congress trying to protect itself from certain defeat whenever elections are called? It’s easy to rig the polls from the inside.

Footnote: And soon, we’ll get to hear the Congress whitewashing the Emergency as a fiction invented by the Opposition/fascist forces.