A Bhopal merchant invested Rs 35,000 in a 1917 British war loan, 109 years later, UK’s Debt Management Office says it finds no evidence the loan was ever its obligation

UK’s Debt Management Office says it found no evidence that a 1917 Indian War Loan, in which a Bhopal merchant invested Rs 35,000, was ever a British government obligation. A Sehore family holding the century-old certificate seeks an account of repayment, estimating its value at several crores today. The DMO didn’t say whether it was repaid.