It does make you wonder "what if" the preflight checks were done in other countries, would the results be similar or ? I guess we may never know.
For those who are interested, here is a goto to the CAR.
http://dgca.nic.in/cars/D5f-f3.pdf
There was quite a discussion on this subject earlier on pprune.
http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-443682.html