CBI books ex-DGCA flying-training director: family firms, cheap Cessnas, dear leases, cousin instructor at ₹6.5 lakh a month — all alleged.

The Central Bureau of Investigation registered a regular case on Friday, 21 August 2026, widely reported on Sunday, against Captain Anil Gill, then Director of Flying Training at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, and four aviation companies. The offences cited are Sections 11 and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act as amended in 2018, and Indian Penal Code Section 120B on criminal conspiracy. A first information report is allegation paper. It is not a conviction.

Named with Gill are Bluethroat Aero Global Private Limited, Redbird Aviation Academy Private Limited, Sabres Corporate Solutions Private Limited, Sandhills Aviation IFSC Private Limited, and unknown public servants and private persons. The Anti-Corruption Branch in New Delhi received the complaint on 17 August. It rested on a preliminary enquiry registered on 7 April 2025 after a complaint by Captain J.S. Dhillon, managing director of Global Avianautics Limited, routed through Directorate General of Civil Aviation vigilance. Section 17A Prevention of Corruption Act approval was obtained. Those are process dates on the card.

The first information report alleges that Gill extended undue official favours to select flying training organisations and caused detriment to similarly placed operators. It further alleges that training aircraft were bought at nominal prices through benami or shell entities managed by close relatives, then leased to favoured organisations at high rates. Bluethroat, on that account, was incorporated in 2016 with Gill’s mother and maternal aunt as directors; a cousin and a sister-in-law joined later. Sabres and Sandhills are also alleged to have had relatives as directors. Relative-director lines in an FIR remain allegations.

Bluethroat, the FIR account says, acquired a Cessna in 2020 for ₹10 lakh and another in 2021 for ₹37.5 lakh, against an estimated market of ₹75 lakh to ₹1 crore for a fully operational aircraft with 123 engine hours as alleged. Both were leased to Redbird under approvals Gill granted. Lease rentals from Redbird are put at more than ₹2.16 crore between 2021 and October 2023. Redbird’s initial flying-training-organisation approval is alleged within one month and three days, against four to six months for Skynex Aero and Jet Serve Aviation. A GATI aircraft-induction application is alleged to have been kept pending without reasons. Those timing comparisons are FIR allegations.

In September 2022, Gill chaired a selection committee that appointed cousin Vikas Nain as Deputy Chief Flying Instructor. Nain was then employed by Redbird at about ₹6.5 lakh a month, the FIR alleges. Non-disclosure of relatives’ aviation employment against Department of Personnel and Training and Directorate General of Civil Aviation conduct rules is also alleged. Investigation is with Central Bureau of Investigation Inspector Aditya Kumar of Anti-Corruption-I, New Delhi. No immediate response from Gill or the companies was on the Sunday desks.

New Delhi is the dateline. Form B and any poll date are not notified. Until a court writes, the public ledger is a Prevention of Corruption Act and conspiracy first information report, four named aviation companies, two Cessnas at ₹10 lakh and ₹37.5 lakh, Redbird lease rentals above ₹2.16 crore, a cousin instructor at about ₹6.5 lakh a month, and alleged fast-track approval against slower competitors. Every figure and every favour remains allegation.