Part 1 – The Ill-Fated Letter that Arrived at Roorkee Cantonment: The Bloody Evening of 1968 that Turned the Border Guard Into a Rebel.

Dainik Bhaskar

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That fading evening of 1968 is still etched in the memory of 86-year-old Omkar Singh Yadav like a burning ember. When the postman handed him an inland letter in the barracks of the Indian Army's Bengal Engineering Group in Roorkee Cantonment, no one could have imagined that a few words on that paper would not only destroy the life of a cheerful soldier but also write a bloody chapter in the history of Indian crime and justice system that would r…