One more fake pilot held, total arrest in such cases New Delhi: One more
pilot was arrested here for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure
commercial flying licences, taking the total number of people arrested
in such cases to 19.The names of Jigesh G Bhai Patel and Saurabh P Lokhande have also been
forwarded to Delhi police’s crime branch by airline regulator
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which claimed that the duo
submitted forged marksheets for obtaining the Commercial Pilot Licence
(CPL).Rohit Kapoor (22) was apprehended from R K Puram in south Delhi
yesterday, Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), said
today. Patel and Lokhande as well as a middleman are yet to be arrested,
he said.
"This is the fourth module which we have cracked in this connection,”
Chand said, adding a total of five pilots and two middlemen are on the
run.
With this, Delhi police have arrested 11 pilots, three DGCA officials, a
middleman and two forgers. Jaipur police had also earlier arrested two
fake pilots.
Police have so far cracked four modules involved in supplying forged marksheets to help people procure pilot licences.
Kapoor had joined a three-year diploma course in aeronautical mechanical
engineering from an aviation academy in Hyderabad but left the course
after completing two years as he did not find it useful.
In March 2008, he went to Phillipines for a flying course and joined an
institute. In December 2008, he came to India and appeared for pilot
examination but could not pass any paper. He once again appeared in all
the three exams in April 2009 but could pass only one paper of Air
Regulation.
"Then he went back to Phillipines and completed his flying hours and got
his CPL in January 2010. In April 2010 session, he appeared in Air
Navigation Composite paper for conversion of CPL (Phillipines) into CPL
(India) but could not clear the same."Thereafter, he once again appeared for Air Navigation Composite paper
in June 2010 special session but could not clear the paper. In July
2010, he met a contact in Delhi who assured him that on payment of
Rs50,000 he would help him in getting him the result card and would also
get his file
processed in DGCA for grant of CPL licence,” Chand said.Kapoor allegedly paid Rs50,000 to the contact who then submitted the
documents for obtaining of CPL with the DGCA. However, there was
suspicion over his documents and the file was kept pending by the DGCA.In the first module relating to the grant of Airline Transportation
Pilot Licence (ATPL), kingpin Pradeep Tyagi, Parminder Kaur Gulati,
Jitender Krishan Varma, Meenakshi Singhal, Swarn Singh Talwar, all
pilots, forgers Lalit Jain and Pankaj Jain and DGCA official Pradeep
Kumar, were arrested. 12/05/11 PTI/
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