06 April,2011 08:10 AM IST | | Atul Krishan
Accused arrested by Crime Branch along with two aspiring pilots on Tuesday. He had also made fake papers for him self to get a job at a flying institute
He used to work as a peon but was a master when it came to forging documents. And with his 'forgery skills', he helped two persons get the pilots' licenses and also managed a job of a flight supervisor for himself. On Monday, the 'flight' of this forger Eknath Patil was cut short when he was arrested by Delhi Crime Branch along with two pilots.
Nabbed: Two pilots and the alleged forgeru00a0 were arrested by the Crime
Branch of Delhi police on Tuesday. Pic/Imtiyaz Khan
DCP (Crime) Ashok Chand said that the role of this master forger came to light after the arrest of a pilot Abhishek Kaushik. "The Crime Branch had received a complaint against Abhishek from training and licensing department of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) following which he was arrested. During interrogation, Abhishek confessed that he had furnished fake certificates to DGCA to obtain a Commercial Pilot's License (CPL). He also revealed that he and his friend Hiren Nagar had obtained the forged marksheets from Eknath Patil. Followingu00a0 this, the Crime Branch arrested both of them," said Chand.
The DCP said that in 2003, Abhishek and Hiren were studying together at Yash Airways, a flying school in Madhya Pradesh. To get a CPL, one has to clear five exams of Air Navigation, Aviation Metrology, Air Regulation, General and Specific. Despite several attempts, Abhiskeh was not able to clear two of the exams (General and Specific) and he left the flying institute. Six years later, in 2009, Abhishek happened to met Hiren again and came to know that he had obtained a CPL.
Abhishek, who still harboured a dream of becoming the pilot, asked Hiren how he had managed to clear the exams. Hiren told him that he too was unable to clear the exam but had managed to get forged marksheet of flying school with the help of Eknath. Abhishek then asked Hiren to introduce him to Eknath for which he paid Hiren Rs 1.5 lakh.
"Eknath contacted Abhishek in September 2009 in Delhi. A deal was struck and Abhishek paid him Rs 6.5 lakh to get forged marksheet and result card that he later submitted to DGCA in November 2009. He later got his CPL on the basis of forged papers ," said the senior police official.u00a0u00a0
The police also found that initially Eknath used to work as a peon at flying club, Indore Udyan Institute in MP. He then moved to Gujarat and 'managed' a job of flight supervisor for himself at Ahmedabad Aviation and Aeronautics on the basis of forged papers. The Crime Branch is interrogating him to know whether he had provided fake certificates to other pilots too.
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