"Both Hindustan Times and Indian News Chronicle had exposed the blatantly anti-Indian role of boundary force and of Auchenleck in particular. One day both Sahni and Devdas Gandhi of Hindustan Times were called by Mountbatten, Sahni says: ‘‘The Viceroy put on an air of grave resentment as we entered. ... he referred to the reports appearing in my paper and The Hindustan Times about the questionable role of the boundary force, the crimes’ of the Baluchi Regiment, the failure of Auchenleck as Joint Commander, and the sinister atmosphere in the Commander’s House. --- Before we could say anything Mount- batten concluded his brief, well-prepared speech by saying, “And now may I inform you that I have the Prime Minister’s and the Deputy Prime Minister’s permission to get you placed under arrest, unless I receive satisfactory assurances that this sinister propaganda will stop ?’ -.. We told Mountbatten that ... what we had written was not out of malice, but because we were prompted by a sense of public duty. Both of us put before Mountbatten a volume of authentic evidence to prove to him how much graver and more serious was the truth, and how little of it had been published in the papers.’’"