NEW DELHI: After liquor, official gifts too have been stolen from the Prime Minister's Special aircraft during a foreign tour.
An enquiry has begun into the charges that some official gifts have 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 and submitted a 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 Special 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.
