2 pilots arrested for leaking licence exam question paper

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested two pilots, including one from Air India subsidiary Alliance Air, in connection with the alleged leakage of a question paper of commercial licence examination.

HS Malhotra of Alliance Air was arrested on May 18 and Siddarth Chowdhury of Indigo airline was arrested a day earlier.

The two were produced separately before a magistrate who remanded them to CBI custody till May 23, Press Information Officer of the agency RK Gaur said.

The two pilots were arrested as part of the ongoing probe by the CBI to unearth the racket involving leakage of question paper pertaining to Commercial Pilot Licence (Technical) examination, he said.

A case was registered on April 20 last month under various sections of the IPC on the allegations relating to leakage of question paper ahead of the examination that was held on March 15.

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The examination for this paper was declared null and void by the DGCA on March 27.

The CBI had been approached by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) with a complaint about leakage of the question paper, Mr Gaur said.

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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 other pilot and finally reached Lalit Jain, who was arrested by CBI on May 15.

A payment of several lakh was made for the leakage of the paper, the CBI alleged.

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Thereafter, the question paper was scanned and sent through e-mail to various 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 at present in judicial custody, is an accused in a Delhi Police case of last year for forging commercial pilot licences.

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