“I do not think that is correct. I do not think any important file could go missing when Chidambaram was the Home Minister.
He was a very hands-on minister,” said senior spokesman Ajay Maken. At that time, Maken was the deputy of Chidambaram in the Home Ministry but didn’t look after the Internal Security division to which the file belonged.
Reports earlier had it that the one-man inquiry panel probing the missing files related to the case has concluded that the papers were “removed knowingly or unknowingly or misplaced” in September, 2009.