The Thakkar Commission Report (published 1986) pointed the “needle of suspicion" at RK Dhawan for complicity in the conspiracy to assassinate Indira Gandhi. This can't be true. Dhawan would have thrown himself in front of a bus to save IG.
What that implied was Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar was enraged by his own sub-par investigative abilities. He was looking for someone to blame, and right then Dhawan presented himself, whose only transgression was to keep quiet and decline to respond to any of the questions.
This brings us to the point I want to make.
A government report writer is a very powerful person. I have no doubt that Dhawan suffered greatly as a result of those remarks, and it may have even damaged his career thereon.
This further brings us to the most powerful person in a police station.
The writer.
What he writes is set in stone. So be ready to pay whatever he asks. Ok. If he writes, 'he hit his wife, and she fell dead” ... then that's the end of you. But if he writes, 'It seems he and his wife were arguing and it was getting very physical, and she fell and hit her head and was later declared dead. ” ... then you have some wriggle room. This wording sounds so eloquent in the local language.
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