9500 crucial files missing from Mumbai civic corporation building: security compromised?

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http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/9500-crucial-files-missing-from-mumbai-civic-corporation-building-security-compromised-388831

Reported by Yogesh Damle, Written by Miloni Bhatt
NDTV.com
July 07, 2013

Mumbai: For a city like Mumbai, constantly singed by terror, any security 
breach is scary and this involving the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation 
is alarming.

9500 files from the Building Proposals department of the Brihanmumbai 
Municipal Corporation have gone missing.

Among them, files that have the building plans, blueprints , and 
architectural plans of sensitive city structures like The Taj Mahal Palace 
Hotel, Indian Naval Hospital Asvini, Tata Institute of Fundamental 
Research, and some Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport(BEST) 
buildings.

The Municipal commissioner admitted to NDTV that the civic administration 
has no idea since when the files have been missing. They claim the files 
could be missing for the past four or five years.

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