LUCKNOW The Lucknow police were taking assistance from Indian Air Force (IAF) officials to investigate into the theft of a fighter aircraft tyre and trying to ascertain the motive behind the incident as the plane’s tyre was of no utility for a common man, said officials on Friday.
The police had on Thursday filed a case against unidentified people under Section 379 of the IPC after one of the five tyres of the fighter jet was stolen from a truck carrying an IAF logistics consignment from the Bakshi ka Talab airbase here to Jodhpur airbase on November 27.
Driver of the trailer, Hem Singh Rawat of Ajmer (Rajasthan), had stated that two SUV-borne men stole the tyre when the trailer was stuck in a traffic jam.
