Nearly three many years after the spy “scandal” and his untimely retirement from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in 1996, Rattan Sehgal, former Further Director of the company has handed away. Sehgal, was residing in Gurugram ever since he select to take untimely retirement two years previous to his tenure within the intelligence company ending. At the moment, he was the pinnacle of the IB’s counter-intelligence wing and was named because the mole within the messy espionage episode involving operatives of the CIA.
Buddies and former colleagues from the intelligence group informed The Indian Categorical that Rattan Sehgal, now in his mid-Eighties, handed away on April twenty third. The cremation was held on April twenty fourth and was attended by a number of serving and former officers of the IB and the RAW. A few of them recalled how Sehgal was an avid golfer and was incessantly noticed teeing away on the Delhi Golf Membership. One former colleague talked about how Sehgal had been dealing with well being points ever because the Covid outbreak.
The Indian Categorical (December tenth, 1996) had first reported how only a week earlier than, the then IB Chief Arun Bhagat had “confronted” Rattan Sehgal with 9 surveillance movies the place wherein he was seen having “unauthorized” conferences with US diplomats, amongst whom allegedly together with the then CIA station chief, a deputy and a predecessor. Sehgal had apparently not taken what is named “goal cultivation sanction” for these conferences and had neither reported on their outcomes to the DIB (Director, Intelligence Bureau). Previous to becoming a member of the IB and taking cost of its counter-intelligence wing, Sehgal had dealt with delicate assignments like VVIP safety and had been posted as a Joint Secretary within the MEA. What adopted the sudden resignation of Rattan Sehgal from the IB — and made the espionage angle seem even greater — was the mutual expulsion of diplomats from either side shortly thereafter. Whereas India requested for the expulsion of the 2 diplomats seen within the surveillance movies; by February 1997 it was the US which retaliated and requested for 2 diplomats posted within the Indian Consular workplace in San Francisco and Chicago to return to India. The spy spat ended with US officers stating that the diplomatic relations of the 2 international locations ought to “get on from right here…”
Rattan Sehgal, had on the time of his exit from the IB, vehemently denied all allegations, making out that he had been in contact with the US diplomats since they have been all skilled and social contacts. When The Indian Categorical had then (in 1996, when the story of his alleged CIA hyperlinks appeared) contacted him, he claimed he had been considering looking for untimely retirement from the IB since over a 12 months. Following his exit from the IB in 1996, Sehgal fully disappeared from public view and was infrequently noticed, even on social media.
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