Bachchan hails clean chit after years of anguish

With the Swedish whistle-blower,Sten Lindstrom,in the Bofors scam giving him a clean chit,Amitabh Bachchan said on Wednesday that he felt exonerated after he was accused of links to alleged kickbacks in the controversial arms deal.

With the Swedish whistle-blower,Sten Lindstrom,in the Bofors scam giving him a clean chit,Amitabh Bachchan said on Wednesday that he felt exonerated after he was accused of links to alleged kickbacks in the controversial arms deal. But he said he was also pained that the public admission of his innocence came 25 years after the allegations surfaced and wished that his parents had been alive to see his name cleared.

No one shall be able to understand or even remotely fathom the hours and days and months and years of the anguish of petulant blame that I had to go through, the veteran actor wrote on his blog,posted early on Wednesday.

Stating that the time has finally come for the truth to prevail,he wrote that fighting a storm at its worst would have been stupidity even though the accusations were improbable and tested against reality. He said he read of his innocence from one that pioneered accusation and investigation.

About Bachchan,Lindstrom said Indian investigators had given him the actors name among the people to probe. He said a team of Indian investigators,during a trip to Sweden,had planted the Bachchan angle on Dagens Nyheter,a Swedish daily. The Dagens Nyheter later lost a case filed by the Bachchans in a UK court and had to apologise and admit that they had got the story from Indian investigators.