NEW DELHI: The removal of four Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs) in the aftermath of the Indigo fiasco by the aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, (DGCA) has run into controversy.

An expert with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry, Sanjay Lazar, stirred a hornet’s nest on Sunday by charging the regulator of “making scapegoats” of the lower rung staff and demanded a probe by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to identify those responsible for the turmoil caused by the airline. Meanwhile, the DGCA countered the charges by stating the officials removed were directly responsible for keeping a watch on the functioning of Indigo for quite some time and had failed to do so.

An order issued on December 11 by Sunil Singh Rawat, Deputy Director of Admini

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