In response to another question on the quantity of gold held overseas, the RBI replied that the “Reserve Bank of India holds 268.01 tonnes of gold overseas in safe custody with Bank of England and Bank of International Settlements.”

“What did the government get in return for exchanging the gold? Why is the information about the transaction not available in public domain?” Chaturvedi is now asking.

After going through RBI’s audit reports from the year 2011 through 2015, Chaturvedi claimed that “something fishy” happened between 2014 and 2015.

As per RBI’s annual balance sheet dated June 30, 2011, the said quantity of gold was in India as of then.