Another pilot among 2 held

A Delhi Police team arrested a pilot and a middleman in Ahmedabad for allegedly helping a man obtain commercial pilots licence.

A Delhi Police team arrested a pilot and a middleman in Ahmedabad on Tuesday for allegedly helping a man obtain commercial pilots licence CPL from the countrys airline regulator DGCA on the basis of forged marksheets.

On Monday,the police had arrested Abhishek Kaushik,who had obtained the CPL. Police said they were also examining the records of the Class XII marksheets submitted by the pilots to different flying schools at the time of their admission. They said they were on the lookout of at least one more pilot and would also question the officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA.

The two who were arrested in Ahmedabad were identified as Hiren Nagar 27,a pilot,and Eknath Patil 46,a tout. So far 11 people,including eight pilots,have been arrested ever since the pilot licence racket surfaced. The arrests came following investigations into a complaint filed by DGCA.

We have suspicion that even the Class XII board examination marksheets may have been fudged. So far we have got information about the fudging of result card of various examinations conducted by DGCA, said a senior police officer.

Kaushik had allegedly obtained his licence by producing forged marksheets to DGCA. Nagar was also found to have obtained a licence using forged marksheets, said Ashok Chand,Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime.

During investigations,he said,it emerged that Kaushik had come in contact with Nagar while training at a flying school in Madhya Pradesh.

In 2009,Kaushik again got in touch with Nagar who told him he could arrange fake mark-sheet and CPL on payment of Rs 7.5 lakh. Nagar allegedly took Rs 1.5 lakh and told Kaushik that Patil would contact him and he should give him Rs 6 lakh.

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Patil allegedly prepared the forged mark-sheets and along with all relevant documents submitted it in DGCA. Kaushik was issued a licence in 2009. Patil was employed as a peon in a flying club in Indore. Later he joined the flying institute in Indore as a flight supervisor. Thereafter,he joined a flying school in Gujarat as flight supervisor. In 2007,he left the job and started liaison work, Chand said.