Chandigarh heritage items to be auctioned in Italy on March 24

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 17

Several heritage items from the city will be put up for auction in Italy on March 24.

Ajay Jagga, Member, Heritage Protection Cell, Chandigarh, stated that a set of six chairs with structure and armrests in wood and seat in woven cane and a sofa with wooden structure and fabric upholstery would be put up for sale by the auction house, Cambi Casa d’Aste, in Milan on March 24.

In a letter to Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Jagga stated that an auction of Chandigarh heritage items was going to take place on March 24 in Milan, in violation of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) orders dated February 22, 2011.

“There is an emergent need to the get the matter examined from the law enforcing agencies of Italy, as to how these items reached there,” he said.