NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC on Wednesday ended proceedings in a suo motu matter where it had expressed alarm over lack of Covid discipline by passengers in flights and ordered authorities to act.
The HC disposed of a PIL initiated by it earlier this month after the DGCA informed that flyers not wearing masks properly, despite repeated warnings, would be deboarded from planes before departure and treated as “unruly”.
A bench of Justices Navin Chawla and C Hari Shankar expressed satisfaction over steps taken by DGCA and hoped that the action would continue in the same spirit. It observed that the HC was initially planning to keep the case open, but seeing DGCA’s proactive steps it was disposing of the matter.
Justice Shankar had on March 8 had taken suo motu cognisance of the situation after witnessing passengers on a flight not wearing masks properly during transportation from airport to the flight, and noting their “stubborn reluctance” to do so.