UPDATED: March 2, 2021 17:32 IST
Jayanti Dharma Teja s profile is remarkably similar to that of the present Vijay Mallya, another absconder from the judicial process in India (File Photo)
The likely extradition of diamond merchant Nirav Modi has brought back memories of another fugitive, Jayanti Dharma Teja, the lawbreaker charged with evading taxes worth crores and forcing the Indira Gandhi regime to pursue him in three jurisdictions United States, Costa Rica and United Kingdom before he was successfully brought to India in 1971.
In “Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London”, London-based journalists Danish and Ruhi Khan have given a compelling account of Teja and India’s chase for him across three continents.
D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Sixty-one years ago on September 25th 1959 Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka known as Ceylon then was shot and seriously wounded by a Buddhist monk. Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike succumbed to his injuries and passed away the following day. Therefore September 26th 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence history annals of Sri Lanka.
The impact of that single assassination was tremendous at that time. The murder of a prime minister was sensationally shocking news. It was the first major political assassination experienced by the Island nation in the post-Independence era. In later years, political assassinations became a regular feature in Sri Lanka.. The death was an event of great historical importance too as it was the first ever assassination of a major political personality in the Island nation at that time. Thereafter September 26, 1959 got etched as an important date in the post-independence