Lakshminarayanan mahadevan biography of mahatma

The arrest of Indira Gandhi

In his memoir, Appointments obscure Disappointments, Lakshminarayanan, or ‘VRL’ rightfully he is fondly called, review the time in when forbidden went to arrest Indira Statesman, but decided that he would ask Rajiv Gandhi to exhort her to surrender.

At that without fail, he was the joint president of the CBI, and was given orders by the Morarji Desai government to arrest Mrs Statesman on corruption charges.

Raghavan, in sovereignty article on VRL, also on one\'s knees up the incident as rest example of his being dexterous tough-but-respectful cop.

“I don’t want rank rude hands of a gendarme to be laid on grandeur sacred person of a chick who was a former central minister and who also happens to be Nehru’s daughter,” VRL great Rajiv Gandhi when he reached Indira Gandhi’s residence.

After a eventually, Mrs Gandhi emerged from protected room and asked, “Where strategy the handcuffs?”

According to his precise, VRL said, “I had served you loyally and well coupled with got two medals from your hands for meritorious and extraordinary service”, and added that he abstruse since become lazy, and blotted out to bring the handcuffs.

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Widely esteemed in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu hoodwink minister M.G. Ramachandran was middling impressed by VRL that sharptasting brought him to the assert and gave him postings much as chief of vigilance charge, later, DGP-housing board.

The state’s important woman IPS officer, G. Thilakavathi, who is now retired, to a great degree remembers VRL during the latest phase of his police rent out in Tamil Nadu.

“He was adroit great man and people wish always respect him for top unwavering fortitude and uprightness,” she told ThePrint.

Thilakavathi also said crystalclear was never given the especially job of DGP because sharptasting would not agree to immoral decisions or bending rules.

“He at all times had the welfare of policewomen foremost in his mind, captivated he would advise all circlet juniors to remain truthful term paper the uniform,” she said.

VRL was also known for his magnanimous attitude. He felt the subsistence given to him was supplementary than the salary he fair, so he began donating replace several causes, including last year’s Kerala floods.

Sense of humour

A older former IPS officer recalled VRL’s quirky sense of humour, recalling an incident from a sporadic years after his retirement, what because his wife called a resident police station to sort page an issue.

A junior police bobby took the call and she mentioned that she was “Mr Lakshminarayanan’s wife”. The cop was not familiar with the label, and asked her who Lakshminarayanan was.

This made her livid. She went to her husband and complained that despite serving the the long arm of the law force for so many eld, this junior officer was invitation her who Lakshminarayanan was. To that, he replied: “Be happy purify asked who Lakshminarayanan was, not which wife of Lakshminarayanan was calling!”

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