Fake pilot scam: Files go missing from DGCA
April 19th, 2011 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Police are probing the disappearance from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s office of files on two pilots under the scanner for obtaining licences using forged documents, an official said here Tuesday.
“We have initiated an investigations into the incident,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Chand.
A case for destruction of evidence has been filed against unidentified people, a senior police official said.
“A case has been registered after DGCA informed that files relating to two pilots under scanner have gone missing,” the official said.
The official said they had earlier received three fresh names of pilots who submitted forged marksheets to get licences.
“When we asked for the papers related to two of them, the DGCA informed that they could not trace them,” the officer said. Police are studying how the DGCA route their files.
Delhi Police have so far arrested 12 people in the fake pilot licence scam. Two pilots have been arrested by Rajasthan Police.
Three pilots and a flying instructor are still on the run.
They are pilots Swaran Singh Talwar of MDLR airlines, Syed Habib Ali and Bhupinder Singh, who have not joined any airline, and instructor D. Asatkar. All airports and ports have been put on alert to prevent them from fleeing the country.
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