The Delhi high court last month asked the authorities to explain charges of the “offences of forgery” made out against Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, who had skipped the breath analyser test in 2017 during the Delhi-Bengaluru flight operation following which he was suspended.
Justice Yogesh Khanna passed the order while hearing a plea by Kathpalia seeking to quash a forgery first information report (FIR) against him contending that once he has been given a clean chit in the departmental proceedings, he cannot be tried for forgery separately.
On January 19, 2017, Kathpalia flew a Delhi-Bengaluru flight without going through the mandatory breathalyser test.
