The Times of India and The Indian Express are among the top most respected publications and mos widely read in India. Both of them have a significant online presence especially the former.
Now see this news article a few days back in Times of India.
Cops stunned over Nazi man’s capture
30 Jun 2008, 0521 hrs IST,TNN
BANGALORE/BELGAUM: Sunday morning’s reports about the capture of a former Nazi official on the Karnataka-Goa border have stunned even the authorities of both states.
Karnataka home minister V S Acharya claimed no knowledge of any such operation. “We should have known about it by now,” he said. Goa IGP Kishan Kumar also had no clue.
In what must have had readers spill their morning cuppa, a section of the media carried reports based on a release circulated via email, that a certain German intelligence agency, Perus Narkp, and Indian intelligence agencies had picked up Johann Bach (88), a former Nazi officer accused of killing of 12,000 Jews in the run-up to the second World War, in the jungles of Khanapur on Friday.
The agencies, the release claimed, had apprehended Bach, who had been absconding for 50 years. According to the reports, he was a high-ranking Waffen SS (Schutzstaffel) colonel in Nazi army.
Now read this in Indian Express
Nazi war criminal arrested near Goa, airlifted to Berlin
Bangalore, June 30: An 88-year-old Nazi war criminal identified as Johann Bach was airlifted to Berlin after he was tracked down to the Goa-Karnataka border by German and Indian intelligence agencies on the basis of information provided by an Israeli group involved in the search for war criminals and investigations in Goa.
Though local police and intelligence agencies in Karnataka said they were “unaware” of the operation, Karnataka Additional DGP for Intelligence, Shankar Bidari, said his office had received information of the arrest on Saturday morning. He also said the alleged war criminal had been moved to Germany.
Officials at the German embassy, when contacted, said they had received no information of the arrest in Goa. The German consulate in Mumbai had also not received any information, embassy officials said.
Reports from Hubli and Goa quoting a press release issued by Perus Narkp, said to be the intelligence wing of the Berlin-based German Chancellor’s Core, said Bach had been involved in the killing of nearly 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Bach has been identified as an absconding Waffen SS (Schutzstaffel) Colonel. He has also been identified as a senior adjutant at the East Berlin concentration camp.
Bach had been on the run over the last 50 years, hopping across countries like Argentina, Bulgaria, Yemen and Canada before arriving in Goa around five months ago. He had been under surveillance after people involved in the search for listed Nazi war criminals traced his location to Bardez in Goa, the Karnataka intelligence official said.
Efforts to nab the alleged war criminal narrowed down recently when he put up an antique 18th Century piano up for sale through newspaper advertisements in Goa. The piano is said to be similar to one reported missing from an East Berlin museum during the Holocaust years.He was arrested at Anmod on the Goa-Belgaum route.
The articles still exist despite comments informing the newspapers that they are fake.
Source : Pratham
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