AI pilot rubbishes fake licence charges

Currently facing charges of using forged documents to obtain his commercial pilot's licence, Air India pilot Arjun Giare claims that his reputation is being maligned without reason. In the eye of the storm - Giare - who has been charged with showing fake Class X certificates with a misrepresented year of birth, rubbishes the entire expose as 'hogwash'.
"All the reports on television and newspapers about me are false and baseless. I have done nothing wrong or illegal and I am in possession of all my true and authentic documents which I will show to a competent authority when required ," he said to ET.
Giare also claims that a misprint on the part of CBSE has led to all the misinterpretation. "There was a CBSE misprint that is being highlighted the wrong way. It is easy to highlight what suits the authorities concerned. My documents were earlier already verified by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). I am not a 'fake' pilot and have every certificate to prove the same," he said.
According to him, the misprint stated his year of birth as 1981. However, he got a new certificate in 2003 from CBSE which corrected his birth year as 1980 after the order of the Delhi High Court.
At present, Giare has been de-rostered by Air India till the time the enquiry is underway.
20/02/11 Neha Dewan/Economic Times

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Categories: Air India Mar 2011, Indian Aviation- In General Mar 2011