The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre what action it has taken with regard to the alleged disappearance of artifacts from the National Museum.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar posed the query to the Ministry of Culture while hearing a PIL, filed in 2013, which alleged that several Indian antiquities had gone missing and valuable manuscripts lost from the museum.
"The petition is pending since 2013 and you have still not done anything with regard to the missing artifacts. What action have you taken? You are a museum and you have not taken any care," the court said.
The remarks from the bench came after it noted that the ministry had not till date addressed the allegation of missing artifacts raised in the petition.
When central government standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia, appearing for the ministry, told the bench that a status report will be filed on the issue, the court remarked,"You will in 2019 for the first time state what has happened with regard to the missing artifacts?"
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