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Cops register FIR for 'missing' Boeing 737
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Cops register FIR for 'missing' Boeing 737
21 Jun, 2007 l 0021 hrs ISTlT S SREENIVASA RAGHAVAN/TIMES NEWS NETWORK

CHENNAI: A man in Kallikudi village in Madurai district lost a Boeing 747. Unbelievable! But the Tamil Nadu police did believe him and registered an FIR saying that the aircraft had disappeared. They put the value of the lost object at Rs 1,600.

FIRs such as these are straight from the report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India for 2005-06 which came up with gems such as these after scrutinising 67,672 crime records of Tamil Nadu.

There was also one about a missing bicycle that an FIR put as worth Rs 91,000 and one about a moped that apparently had a price tag of Rs 90 lakh and a motorcycle of Rs 11.10 lakh.

Then, there was a poor cowherd who filed a complaint (and the cops faithfully recorded an FIR) saying he had lost 15,000 buffaloes in one go.

When the CAG pulled up the Tamil Nadu police department, pointing to the fantastic crime recording, the department in its reply blamed the sorry state of affairs to the huge volume of work and cumbersome processes involved. "We've taken necessary steps to make corrections," it assured the CAG.