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Historical Event on 11/20/1998

V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1946Gandhiji considers 'Plan' the best document produced by British Government under the circumstances.
2/21/1979Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away.
7/16/1997V. S. Rama Devi, Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha, appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
12/25/1763Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).