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Firm wants to sell Purulia arms dropping aircraft

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Posted online: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 01:07:59
Updated: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 01:07:59


Kolkata, April 8 The Bombay International Airport Company has filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking an order to remove or sell out the aircraft stranded there since Decemeber, 1995. The aircraft was used for dropping of arms in Purulia. Advocate Milan Mukherjee, counsel of the company, today moved the plea before a division bench of Justice D P SenGupta and P K Deb alleging that the modernisation plan of Bombay airport could not be started because of the aircraft. He produced a letter by the Chief Secretary, Amit Kiran Deb, to the secretary of the Civil Aviation ministry on May 29, 2007. In the letter Deb had said that the state had no objection if the aircraft is removed from Bombay airport.

The government has asked for more time to inform the Bench about the its decision reagarding the abandoned aircraft.

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