When I was first arrested, the CBI said I had embezzled thousands of crores from Indian banks which had branches in London, but when the original chargesheet was filed by the CBI after the stipulated 90 days — I stress again, the banks themselves never filed a complaint against me, including in England, where the alleged transactions were supposed to have taken place — it was down to Rs 5 crore. So much so the late Ram Jethmalani, who was my lawyer then, told the court at the time of the CBI filing the chargesheet that we accept all the evidence the CBI has presented is true, now please pass the judgement. We were confident as no witnesses had taken my name, no money was siphoned off, but the judge said no, we cannot pass a judgement. Because there was no case, and the trial took 34 years for my acquittal. In those three and more decades, the CBI kept asking for adjournments, delaying the trial saying witnesses were not available, nor could they produce any official papers to prove forgery and cheating on my part.