The Supreme Court refused to accept a pilot’s plea to change his order.
New Delhi:
Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to plead a pilot to change its order, which allowed Air India to fill the middle seats while exploiting its non-scheduled flights to bring stranded Indians abroad until June 6.
A request to intervene has been filed by Deven Kanani, requesting the modification of the May 25 order on the grounds that there has been a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, and even if only one flight (international / domestic) operates in full occupancy, then many other passengers and the crew is likely to be infected.
The district court said it did not want to add to the confusion after adopting the order earlier this week.
A magistrate of SA Bobde and AS Bopanna and Hrishkesh Roy, while refusing to vary his order, said that whatever they did (Center and Air India), however serious, this arrangement interim continues for ten days.
Attorney Abhilash Panickar, who appeared for the pilot, said that the DGCA guidelines on social distancing should be followed and that the middle seats of the plane should remain vacant.
The bank asked Mr. Panickar to address the Bombay High Court if he wished to raise any other matter related to the case.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Center and Air India, said that a committee of experts has been appointed to examine the matter.
He said that the health of citizens is paramount and that the government will take all possible measures to protect them.
The bench said it trusted the panel of experts and hoped it would take into account all relevant considerations.
He told the petitioner that the court had asked the Center and Air India to bring back the stranded Indians and they were doing so.
Now let the High Court decide the matter definitively, the district court said and gave the pilot the freedom to withdraw his request.
The petitioner’s counsel then agreed to withdraw the request.
The pilot, on the plea of the High Court, requested responses from the Center and from Air India, stated in his application filed through counsel Tanuj Bagga, in the superior court, that he requested the modification of the May 25 order, as it was an ex parte order. obtained by deletion and false declaration.
