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Loosely referred to as the Karnal Club, it is a mafia of sorts within the aviation regulator, allegedly allowing India’s flying schools to get away with malpractices in return for bribes.
In late October, a whistleblower letter addressed to civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia startled everyone in the aviation industry with its litany of corruption charges against a particular official in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
The most startling of the allegations was that Anil Gill, director of the flying and training department of DGCA, had, in lieu of favours, forced flying training organizations (FTOs) to sell their aircraft to his benami companies only so he could lease them back to the same organizations at huge profits. The letter also named Gill’s relatives and friends as part of these deals. …
A drop in employee costs, despite the need to hire pilots under the new DGCA norms, raises fresh concerns about IndiGo’s staffing, and its vulnerability to a December 2025-scale disruption.
Nearly four years after the unsavoury incident that created a national furore, the alleged offender’s life has come undone. He has been defeated by a system that does not deem him worthy of transparency or a chance at finding closure.
Despite enough warnings, no alarm bells were rung. The buck now stops with Rahul Bhatia, the promoter and managing director of India’s largest airline that is facing its biggest crisis ever.
