NEW DELHI: Would anyone in their right mind go from Delhi to Jaipur via Sao Paulo? Or travel from Mumbai to Port Blair via Dubai? The suggestion is crazy, you might say. But this is precisely what a couple of top PSU officials have done to claim their leave travel concession (LTC).
More and more such bizarre examples of LTC abuse are coming out since TOI broke the scam on Thursday. As the scope of the investigation, which has been referred by the CVC to the CBI, is widening, sources say the magnitude of the rip-off is simply growing.
Coming back to the worthy who needed to travel just 520 km - the distance from Delhi to Jaipur and back - but apparently ended up travelling over 28,884 km - the distance from Delhi to Sao Paulo and back - and more, as he went to Jaipur too, the route he devised is an example of a really ingenious mind.
He took off from Jaipur, landed in Mumbai, and from there flew to Sao Paulo in Brazil (obviously with a stopover or two, as there's no direct Mumbai-Sao Paulo flight) and finally reached Delhi, via Mumbai. If he had indeed undertaken this journey, what would have normally been a 45-minute Delhi-Jaipur flight became an odyssey of anything between 48 and 72 hours.
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