New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles has
gone missing from Sevagram Ashram in Wardha in Maharashtra and
the state government has initiated a probe into the incident.
Culture Minister Kumari Selja told Lok Sabha on Tuesday that a
spectacles, which was handed over by Nirmala Behn Gandhi,
daughter-in-law of Mahatma Gandhi in 1985 to keep it in
Ashram, has gone missing.
"The state government has initiated investigations
through CID and the investigation is still continuing," she
said in a written reply.
She also said necessary security arrangements to
safeguard memorabilia belonging to Gandhi have been made by
the Ashram.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 19:04