After liquor, it has now been revealed that official gifts were also stolen from the prime minister's special aircraft.
An enquiry is on into charges that some official gifts had disappeared from Air India's VVIP plane when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Germany in April last.
Earlier, liquor bottles went missing from the same flight and Air India's Vigilance Department conducted an enquiry. It later submitted its report to the Civil Aviation Ministry.
Now the Vigilance Department is
probing the theft of gifts from the same flight, which the prime minister took from Hannover to Berlin, according to airline officials.
At that time, the Specal Protection Group had detected that the seal of one of the cabinets on board was broken. Though nothing was planted inside, some bottles of whisky were found missing.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had taken the management to task for the 'serious security lapse that took place on a VVIP flight in April 2006' and had sought stern action against whoever was found guilty.
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