Spice Jet pilots held for forged papers

Two Spice Jet pilots were arrested on Monday night by Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly using forged documents to obtain Commerical Pilot Licence (CPL).

The two pilots ? Anuj Chaudhary and Amit Mundra ? were remanded in judicial custody by a local court here on Tuesday.

The duo had obtained their CPL from Rajasthan Flying Club of Jaipur.

The Club is already being probed in the ‘fake pilot’ scam and 13 officials of the club have been booked for forging documents.

Three JetLite and Jet Airways pilots are likely to arrested on similar charges.

The DGCA had recently suspended licences of seven pilots and two flying school instructors in this connection

Earlier, alarmed after expose of pilots procuring commercial licence using forged documents, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said it is now scrutinizing the records of all pilots.

At least three pilots had already been arrested after it was found that they had used fake mark-sheets to get commercial licence.

The first arrest was made on March 8 when Indigo pilot Parminder Kaur Gulati was apprehended by the Delhi Police?s crime branch for using fake marks-sheet to procure her commercial licence.

Gulati had come under probe after her wrong landing techniques on several occasions caused damage to the air-craft, the latest being on January 11 when she made a rough landing at Goa airport.