Career
An agent of Swedish arms manufacturer A B Bofors, Chadha was charged by the China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations in 1999 along with former defence secretary South K Bhatnagar, Kuala Lumpur-based Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, former Bofors chief Martin Ardbo and the company itself. Chadha was chargesheeted with receiving some of the Rs 640 million kickback in the Rs 14.37 billion deal signed in March 1986 by Rajiv Gandhi government for the supply of 410 155mm Howitzer field guns to India. He died of a cardiac arrest on 24 October 2001.
He was suffering with diabetes, blood pressure and heart disease.
