Forged marksheets: DGCA chief says more arrests to come

New Delhi: Even as the Delhi Police claim to have busted the racket that provided forged marksheets to pilots aspiring to become commanders after arresting one senior officer from the aviation regulator DGCA’s office, the regulatory body’s chief thinks this might not be the last arrest as there’s more cleaning up to do.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) chief E K Bharat Bhushan suspects there are more people from within the regulator’s office involved in the fake pilots’ licence scam. “We have shared more clues with the police about DGCA officials we are suspicious about. The clean-up drive will continue beyond this,” Bhushan told ET.
According to the Delhi Police crime branch deputy commissioner, Ashok Chand, Air India’s Captain J K Verma, who was arrested earlier during the month for having forged his documents, helped the police get to the bottom of the racket. However, more information is expected to come to light when other tainted pilots namely Captain Swaran Singh Talwar, Captain Syed Habib Ali and Captain Bhupender Singh join the investigations
On Saturday, the police arrested Pradeep Kumar, who worked as an assistant director at the DGCA and took bribes to facilitate the process of obtaining fake pilots’ licences from the regulator’s office. The police have also arrested the mastermind behind this racket, Captain Pradeep Tyagi, on Wednesday.
28/03/11 Anindya Upadhyay/Economic Times