There will probably never be a real closure – there are too many loose ends to the case that rocked India in the mid-1990s. It began with the arrest of a Maldivian woman, Mariam Rashida, in October 1994, on the charges of overstaying her visa that led to the surprise arrests of Narayanan, the director of the cryogenic project lab of the Indian ...

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