Arun Jaitley on the 2 am knock at his door

June 25, 2014 16:16

The Emergency has not received as much traction in the last 10 years as it has done today, for obvious reasons.

This is an excerpt from finance minister Arun Jaitley's blog.

"At about 2 am past midnight, I received a midnight knock at my residence. The police had come to arrest me. My father, a lawyer by profession got into an argument outside the gate of my house asking them at least to inform him as to the nature of offence I had committed. The police had simple instructions to arrest me - they did not know under which provision and for which offence. While this argument was on, I escaped from the backdoor and went to the friends house in the neighbourhood."

And here's the whole blog

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