The CBI has arrested two pilots, including one from Air India subsidiary Alliance Air, in connection with the alleged leak of a question paper of the commercial pilot licence examination. H S Malhotra of Alliance Air was arrested on May 18 and Siddharth Chowdhury of Indigo airline was arrested a day earlier.
The two were produced separately before a magistrate who remanded them in CBI custody till May 23, press information officer of the agency R K Gaur said. The two were arrested as part of the CBI's ongoing probe to unearth the racket involving leak of question paper pertaining to commercial pilot licence (technical) examination, he said.
The two were produced separately before a magistrate who remanded them in CBI custody till May 23, press information officer of the agency R K Gaur said. The two were arrested as part of the CBI's ongoing probe to unearth the racket involving leak of question paper pertaining to commercial pilot licence (technical) examination, he said.
A case was registered on April 20 under various sections of IPC on the allegations relating to leak of the question paper ahead of the examination that was held on March 15. The examination for this paper was declared null and void by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on March 27.
The CBI was approached by the DGCA with a complaint about leak of the question paper, Gaur said. It was alleged that the partially vetted question paper was taken out from the office of chief examination officer of DGCA, which was later passed on to the pilots and finally reached Lalit Jain, who was arrested by CBI on May 15.
A payment of several lakhs was made for the leaked paper, the CBI alleged. Thereafter, the question paper was scanned and sent through e-mail to many candidates allegedly by Jain and the same set of questions were forwarded by the candidates to other people through e-mail as well.
Jain, who is in judicial custody, is an accused in a Delhi Police case for forging commercial pilot licences last year.
The CBI was approached by the DGCA with a complaint about leak of the question paper, Gaur said. It was alleged that the partially vetted question paper was taken out from the office of chief examination officer of DGCA, which was later passed on to the pilots and finally reached Lalit Jain, who was arrested by CBI on May 15.
A payment of several lakhs was made for the leaked paper, the CBI alleged. Thereafter, the question paper was scanned and sent through e-mail to many candidates allegedly by Jain and the same set of questions were forwarded by the candidates to other people through e-mail as well.
Jain, who is in judicial custody, is an accused in a Delhi Police case for forging commercial pilot licences last year.
