They have been charged with criminal conspiracy, framing of incorrect records by public servants to cause injury to persons, forgery of valuable security and fabrication of false evidence - all with the intention to defame Ajeya Singh, son of former Prime Minister V P Singh.
The chargesheet has also named Chandraswami's associate Kailash Nath Aggarwal and former information and broadcasting minister K K Tewary as accused in the case. The then deputy director in the enforcement directorate A P Nanday and former First Trust Corporation managing director George McLean died during the investigations.
The Central Bureau of Investigation could not find evidence against former director of the enforcement directorate K L Verma and Larry Kolb, son-in-law of Adnan Khashoggi, who is a close friend of Chandraswami, and has requested the court to clear them of the charges since the FIR had mentioned all their names.
The CBI has to file a report to the Supreme Court today on the progress made in the case, in response to a public interest litigation filed last year. On the last date of hearing earlier this month, the CBI had told the apex court that a final report in the case would be filed by today.
According to investigations carried out, the then external affairs minister Narasimha Rao, who was in New York between September 25 and October 5, 1989, in connection with the United Nations General Assembly, had allegedly called Indian consul general R K Rai to his hotel suite and instructed him to authenticate certain documents which would be brought to him by an enforcement directorate official.
Further investigations revealed that Rao had called Olympic Towers, which is the address where Chandraswami stays on his visits to New York, around the same time when instructions had been given to Rai.
Claiming to have documentary evidence to show that Chandraswami and his associate Kailash Aggarwal were in the United States during that time, the Central Bureau of Investigation has alleged that they had a role in the forging of documents.
When the then deputy director of the enforcement directorate, A P Nanday, returned after carrying out investigations