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    • The KGB suspected poisoning. At 4am, Ahmed Sattarov, the Russian butler attached to Shastri, was rudely woken up by an officer of the Ninth Directorate of the KGB (responsible for the safety of VIPs).
    • Shastri’s near and dear ones see a needle of suspicion pointing towards an insider's hand. When Shastri’s body was brought to Delhi, no one had any clue about what the KGB was suspecting.
    • No post mortem was carried out on Shastri’s body. The only sure-shot way to find out whether or not Shastriji was poisoned was to carry out a post-mortem on his body.
    • RTI responses muddied the water further. In 2009, I tried to get some clarity on the issue by filing RTI applications. The prime minister's office (PMO) told me that it possessed only one classified document relating to the former prime minister’s death, and that there was no record of any destruction or loss of any document related to the tragedy.
  1. Lal Bahadur Shastri's Death, a 2018 television documentary film by Jyoti Kapur Das reconstructs his death and covers various conspiracy theories around it, including interviews with his son Sunil Shastri. A film titled The Tashkent Files (2019), directed by Vivek Agnihotri revolves around the mystery of the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri.

  2. Apr 12, 2019 · Even after more than five decades, the death of India's former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri remains clouded with mystery.

  3. Jan 12, 2022 · Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first Prime Minister, died of a heart attack on May 27, 1964. 13 days after his death, Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India. This was on June 9, 1964.

  4. Jun 2, 2020 · However, this hero died a strange death which still remains a mystery. Here is the story of India’s true leader Lal Bahadur Shastri. Lal Bahadur Shastri promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk by supporting the Amul milk co-operative movement of Anand, Gujarat.

  5. After the Tashkent Declaration was signed, Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died under mysterious circumstances in Tashkent; his sudden death led to the rise of conspiracy theories claiming that he was poisoned.

  6. Oct 2, 2018 · Though the nation is celebrating 114th birthday of Lal Bahadur Shastri today, many questions still remain unanswered over his mysterious death 52 years ago. Was Lal Bahadur Shastri murdered?...