Airline official held in misuse of authority case

Jun 12, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

The CBI on Friday arrested Leslie Missal, assistant vice-president (security) of a private airlines in Mumbai, in connection with a case of alleged misuse of official position by Manoj Malviya, additional commissioner of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.

According to sources, Leslie Missal was arrested on the charges of providing information and logistic support to Mr Manoj Malviya, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who was arrested by the agency recently on the charges of allegedly abusing his official position. The 1986-batch IPS Officer of West Bengal cadre, Manoj Malviya, and Virendra Singh Chandrawat, former head of security with the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), had been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Corruption Act.
A high ranking official of the CBI said, “Leslie Missal was providing logistic support to the accused IPS official. The additional commissioner abused his official position as public servant and entered into a conspiracy with private persons including Leslie Missal”. Missal will be produced before the court in Mumbai on Saturday, said the official.
There are allegations that the public servant visited Mumbai during May, 2009, and stayed at a five-star hotel for which a bill of Rs 55,662 was raised and paid by the Airports Authority of India. Similarly, in June 2009, he stayed in the same hotel where bill of Rs.16,340 was paid by a Mumbai-based firm engaged in infrastructure projects and maintaining the Mumbai Airport, said the official. “It was found that the additional commissioner visited Mumbai several times where his hotel bills were paid by Mumbai-based private firm,” said the official.

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