7 HC benches heard HAL Airport case

Bangalore: As many as seven division benches of the High Court have so far heard the writ petition challenging the closure of the HAL Airport, but a judgment seems far-fetched.
On Thursday, the final hearing of the writ petition challenging the closure of HAL Airport took an interesting turn, when a division bench refused to hear the case further, after the petitioner’s advocate accused it of being biased against trade unions.
While hearing a petition by the employees’ union of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and others, a division bench comprising Justice VG Sabhahith and Justice SN Satyanarayana refused to hear the case and directed the registry to post the matter before another bench. However, the bench did not cite any reasons for recusing from hearing the case.
The bench orally observed that the employees union was not doing its job properly.
These remarks of the bench was objected to by the petitioner’s advocate, who said, “The AAI and the union government, at no point during the hearing of the writ petition, made such statements against the petitioner. So, how can the court come to a conclusion against the petitioner? It indicates that the bench is biased against the unions,” the counsel said.
19/02/10 ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports Feb 2010