The Tamil Nadu Police have dropped further action in the Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash that killed India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and 12 other defence personnel near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on December 8, 2021.
Nearly two years after the tragic crash, the Upper Coonoor Police in the Nilgiris District, who registered a case under Section 174 of CrPC, kept the investigation pending for want of crucial evidence such as weather clearance report issued on December 8, 2021, and data from the helicopter’s Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder.
According to an investigator, the Sulur Air Base authorities refused to share the details saying the information came under the defence secrets category and directed the local police to approach the Directorate of Aerospace Safety.
