A public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking to ground all SpiceJet flights in view of the recent mishaps that the airline has encountered, was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on Monday..A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad remarked that the Court cannot run the airlines or pass directions about which plane should take off and which shouldn't. "This is not our domain. We have to pass orders within the legal framework," the Court told the petitioner..SpiceJet has been in the news lately after a series of mishaps hit the already cash-stripped airline.While one of its Delhi-Dubai flights had to land in Karachi because of a technical fault, another plane developed a crack in the windshield. In yet another incident, a flight that took off from Patna caught fire and had to be landed just minutes later. An inspection revealed that a bird had hit the plane.The petition filed by a lawyer Rahul Bhardwaj and his son Yugan Bhardwaj said that SpiceJet’s flights need to be stopped to prevent a big accident which can damage the life and property of many passengers.It was submitted that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has not taken any action against the airline despite several incidents and narrow escapes. This amount to violation of right to life under Article 21 of the passengers, it was contended.
A public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking to ground all SpiceJet flights in view of the recent mishaps that the airline has encountered, was dismissed by the Delhi High Court on Monday..A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad remarked that the Court cannot run the airlines or pass directions about which plane should take off and which shouldn't. "This is not our domain. We have to pass orders within the legal framework," the Court told the petitioner..SpiceJet has been in the news lately after a series of mishaps hit the already cash-stripped airline.While one of its Delhi-Dubai flights had to land in Karachi because of a technical fault, another plane developed a crack in the windshield. In yet another incident, a flight that took off from Patna caught fire and had to be landed just minutes later. An inspection revealed that a bird had hit the plane.The petition filed by a lawyer Rahul Bhardwaj and his son Yugan Bhardwaj said that SpiceJet’s flights need to be stopped to prevent a big accident which can damage the life and property of many passengers.It was submitted that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has not taken any action against the airline despite several incidents and narrow escapes. This amount to violation of right to life under Article 21 of the passengers, it was contended.