Make records on ex-PM Shastri's death public: CIC tells PMO
The Central Information Commission has directed the Prime Minister's Office to make public records related to ex-PM Lal Bahadur Shastri's mysterious death in 1966. Shastri died in then USSR, hours after signing the Tashkent Agreement with Pakistan President Muhammad Ayub Khan post the 1965 war. Government had not released information about his death claiming it could harm the country's interests.