By IANS
New Delhi : Delhi Police Tuesday recovered 275 more blank diplomatic passports from a garbage dump in the city following the discovery that the sensitive documents had gone missing from the airport here last week.
The missing passports were recovered from Githorni area in south Delhi, where waste materials from the airport are dumped.
However, sleuths of Delhi Police were yet to recover 41 passports out of a total 500 that had gone missing.
"Search is still underway to recover the remaining passports. We are still verifying the date of arrival of the passports from the government's security press in Nashik. No arrests have been made yet," Joint Commissioner of Police Aditya Arya told IANS.
The matter came to light May 24 when 100 blank diplomatic passports were found in a heap of garbage and 84 more inside a water tank in the premises of the domestic airport.
Police registered a case of theft and launched investigation along with the Intelligence Bureau.
Police said a consignment of 500 blank diplomatic passports meant for the ministry of external affairs were to be sent to various Indian missions and embassies abroad.
Police and Intelligence Bureau sleuths have questioned over 150 people including some senior airport officials as well as some policemen posted at the Palam Airport police station.