Rajasthan plane insurance case: CBI raids firm offices

Jaipur: The Jaipur branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Friday, raided six premises belonging to a brokerage firm named Reliable Brokerage Private Ltd in Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Mumbai. The raids followed the Rajasthan High Court orders in July to begin a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities committed while reinsuring a plane owned by the state government in 2007 and also denial of the insurance claim sought by the state.
Interestingly, the CBI teams found animal skins, including those of black buck, cheetal and python and horns of sambhar from the house of the firm's director Sachinanand Govind in Sirisi Road area.
The incident took place in April 2007 when the then chief minister Vasundhara Raje was on-broad a government plane which slipped on the runway while landing at Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi. Although those in the aircraft, including Raje, had a narrow escape, the plane sustained major damages for which an insurance claim of over Rs 2 crore was sought by the state government from New India Assurance Company, which had insured the plane.
30/10/10 Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Oct 2010