Arun Shourie

There is an incident that politician-economist Arun Shourie pens in his soon-to-release book, Anita Gets Bail (HarperCollins India), which is as worrying as it is traumatising. The case dates back to five years ago in August 2013, when the police landed at Shourie's Delhi home with an arrest warrant for his wife, Anita. The warrant, he says, had been issued for committing an offence under the Environment Protection Act, and for remaining absconding despite repeated court summons. "For the life of me I couldn't figure what poor Anita could have done to injure the environment," a bewildered Shourie, writes in the book. He would later learn that the case was related to a plot he had bought in Aravali Retreat in Gurgaon, in 1990, and which he later sold in 2008, as he "needed money for building a house near Pune".