According to Neerja Chowdhury, Suresh’s car had been tailed for several days by two Janata Party workers — K.C. Tyagi and Om Pal Singh — who were working for Raj Narain. Raj Narain, founder of the Janata Party (Secular), had famously defeated Indira Gandhi in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections.
Chowdhury wrote in her 2023 book, “They knew Suresh used to take photographs with a ‘polaroid camera’, to keep his girlfriend, Sushma Chaudhary, in check and get vicarious pleasure from the exercise.” These explicit photographs were reportedly discovered in the glove compartment of his Mercedes.
Raj Narain publicly disclosed the contents of the photographs, stating that they showed no signs of coercion. In a report by India Today, Narain claimed that in the pictures he had seen, “he came to describing fellatio and cunnilingus; in the photographs he claimed to have seen, he found Hindi inadequate to show his indignation. ‘He is very perverse.’” Jagjivan Ram later met with Narain in an attempt to negotiate, but the meeting — held at the residence of Kapil Mohan, a close associate of Indira Gandhi — was unsuccessful. After Jagjivan Ram left, Raj Narain handed over some of the compromising photographs to Kapil Mohan, who then told Anil Bali to deliver them to Indira Gandhi’s residence.
The pictures were handed over to Sanjay Gandhi. The photos of Suresh Kumar Ram and his young girlfriend practicing “sexual acrobatics” were later published in Surya magazine by Sanjay Gandhi's wife, Maneka Gandhi. Maneka Gandhi founded the news magazine Surya, which later became a tool for supporting and promoting the Congress Party after its defeat in the 1977 elections after the Emergency. The photographs, spread across two pages, were titled with the headline “The Real Story.”
