Capt. Parminder Kaur Gulati of IndiGo Airlines was the first pilot to be held with a fake licence.
The fake pilots scam has got bigger with airline regulator DGCA forwarding the names of three more persons who procured commercial flying licences allegedly on the basis of forged documents to Delhi Police which launched its probe into the matter on Tuesday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) forwarded the names of three more pilots who procured the Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) after the airline regulator found that they have produced forged marksheets to get it.
Police had on April five arrested two DGCA staffers for allegedly helping people to obtain pilot licences using forged documents, taking the total number of arrests in such cases to 13.
Five pilots and three DGCA staffers have so far been arrested by Delhi Police while two others have been apprehended by Rajasthan Police in Jaipur in connection with the racket. Three touts had also been arrested by Delhi Police.
Mahan Jyoti Bhattacharya (37) and Mohammed K Ansari (42) were apprehended on April five following the questioning of two pilots Abhishek Kaushik and Hiren Nagar who claimed that these DGCA staffers have taken lakhs of rupees from them for providing licences using forged marksheets.
12/04/11 India Today
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