A story of how the suitcase people are compromising Indian defence

Investigated & written by
ANIRUDDHA BAHAL & MATHEW SAMUEL


Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers' club one night
to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that the Germans had moved in.
"What Lepage gun?" Colonel Korn inquired with curiosity.
"The new three-hundred-and-forty-millimeter Lepage glue gun,"
Yossarian answered.
"It glues a whole formation of planes together in mid-air."


Catch 22, Joseph Heller


We at Tehelka.com managed to sell the Lepage 90, the ALION and the Krueger 3000 to the Indian defence establishment - ostensibly fourth generation hand-held thermal cameras and, needless to add, non-existent.

This is the story of how we did it.

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It all started with Senior Section Officer Sashi Menon, in the Ministry of Defence, wanting to make some money from arms dealers. We at Tehelka.com floated a fictitious arms manufacturing company, based in London, called West End International. We were in search of a product whose indent existed in the Indian Army. We also wanted to get an entry into the lowest end of the defence chain

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