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Updated: May 25, 2020 12:55:05 pm
The superior court of the hearing was a petition filed by a pilot of Air India, challenge of the latest circular issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, through which the 23 of March so keep an empty seat between two passengers on the flight was withdrawn.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted national carrier Air India permission to operate non-scheduled international flights with the middle seat occupied for the next 10 days, up to the current reserves have been exhausted.
The top court was hearing plea by the Centre and Air India against a Bombay high Court order relating to the circular issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
While holding an urgent hearing on the Eid holiday through video conferencing, a bank headed by the minister of Justice S A Bobde directed the Bombay high Court to decide the petition against the DGCA circular of expeditiously and said that the airlines will have to follow the HC order regarding the security measures, including the maintenance of social distancing within the aircraft by keeping the middle seats vacant between two passengers in a row.
“You must be worried about the health of the citizens, not about the health of the commercial airlines,” the bench, comprising AS Bopanna and Hirshikesh Roy, said the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Centre.
A pilot of Air India had contested the last circular issued by the DGCA, through which the 23 of March so keep an empty seat between two passengers on the flight was withdrawn.
The pilot had also moved the Bombay high Court defying the national airline of the initial decision of not having a seat between the two passengers of the vacancy to the emergence of the flights that they were willing to bring back the stranded Indians from abroad through the Center Vande Bharat Mission, and stated that it was a violation of the March 23 circular issued by the DGCA.
A division bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and Abhay Ahuja had maintained that the Air India was in violation of the DGCA directive and had asked the company to submit a detailed response explaining your position. However, when it was informed that the March 23 order, the DGCA had been withdrawn and a new circular, the court granted freedom to the pilot to amend his plea with the challenge of the new circular.
Opposing the plea, the defenders of Abhinav Chandrachud, Arsh Misra and Kavita Anchan Air India has submitted that the DGCA rules were for the regular flights and not to Vande Bharat flights, which were not regular. Defender Chandrachud said that all passengers in Vande Bharat flights were provided with masks and precautionary measures taken.
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