Clear air on Lal Bahadur Shastri's death: Son Jaipur: Former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's son has demanded that the government should unravel the mystery shrouding his father's death.

Raising doubts about the dark blue spots and cut marks on the abdomen of his father's body after his death in 1966, Shastri's son Sunil asked, "When the postmortem was not conducted, then how the cut marks appeared?"

"The government should clear all doubts about my father's death," he said at a club function in Jaipur on Thursday.

After Shastri's death in Tashkent, USSR, on January 11, 1966 soon after signing the Tashkent Pact with Pakistan, his wife Lalita had alleged he was poisoned....more    
10:46 PM, Aug 17, 2012