Court orders probe into complaint against Air India MD, others

Mumbai: A magistrate's court has ordered a probe into a private complaint filed by former employee of Air India against its Managing Director V Tulsidas and ten others.
Anupam Pandya, a maintenance engineer, had filed a complaint with the Andheri Metropolitan Court last month, alleging that he was removed from the service wrongfully.
He has impleaded Tulsidas in the complaint for allegedly not following proper procedure before terminating his services.
According to Pandya, his seniors started harrassing him after he took exception to non-lincensed staff being made to work on Boeing 747, on which the then Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain was going to travel.
This incident took place in June 2002. Pandya's case was that he as well as other maintenance staff did not possess the license issued by Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which was needed for servicing the plane. However, he alleges, his seniors instead chargesheeted him for refusing to work. Following the inquiry, a show cause notice was served to him, and his salary was stopped.
06/04/07 PTI/The Hindu

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