Indian air space forbidden to SLAF planes

(Lanka-e-News-09.Oct.2012, 11.45PM) The Indian Air space has been made a forbidden zone for the SL Air Force. A SL Air force plane was not allowed to travel across the Indian Air space by India. Lanka e news is in receipt of such a report . This forbidding order was given against a SL Air force plane which was carrying two young elephants namely , Jenita and Tamara , 8 and 7 years old respectively , to Czech republic , Prague Zoo on account of world children’s day . The Czech republic in return had agreed to gift to the Dehiwala Zoo, a pair of crocodiles of the Commodore kind , a pair of hippopotamuses and a pair of horses. The shortest route for the plane carrying the elephants was through the Indian air space. On the 6th from early morning 1.00 till 6.00 efforts were made to take the Indian air space route but without avail , as the Indian Govt.’s permission for the SL air Force plane to fly across India’s air space could not be obtained. Later the SL AF plane took the Sharjah route . Due to the delays and the heat wave in Sharjah, the elephants had faced severe hardships and just managed to escape death before reaching Prague .  Meanwhile the warning issued to visitors from SL to Tamil nadu was withdrawn today .