Khushi Bajpai
Published on: July 18, 2022 at 21:54 IST
A lawyer has filed a public interest litigation before the Delhi High Court raising safety concerns and seeking to stop flying services of spice jet limited, in view of recent flight mishaps in the past two months.
The statement made by the senior advocate Rahul Bhardwaj, filed civil plea making Union of India, ministry of civil aviation, DGCA and spice Jet limited as respondents.
The bench was being seated by the judges as Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramaniam prasad.
The petition refers to seven incidents, three in, May, two in June and two in the month of July wherein many of the spice jet flights encountered mishaps.
DCGA is responsible for all the the rules, regulations, inquires in operation of airlines, however. Spice jet is not performing its duty properly and that the delay in taking action may cause damage to life and property of passengers.
The plea claims that every citizen or passenger has a basic and natural right to lead their journey with dignity, honor and reputation and that any procedural law which does not make the provisions of special inquiry until stopping of operations is negation of Article 21.
The plea also seeks directions on the Respondents to compensate the fair charges to passengers who have faced threat of their life during journey.