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SC Grants Relief To AAI, Allows It To Increase Airport Traffic In Agra Airfield

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In a relief to the Airports Authority of India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday modified its order and allowed AAI to increase the airport traffic in the Agra airfield and construct a new terminal in Agra

New Delhi: In a relief to the Airports Authority of India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday modified its order and allowed AAI to increase the airport traffic in the Agra airfield and construct a new terminal in Agra.

A bench headed by justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul passed the direction while hearing an application moved by the Airports Authority of India. AAI has moved an application through advocate Ashwarya Sinha. In the application, the Airports Authority of India has sought modification of the courtโ€™s earlier order dated December 11 2019, whereby the court has directed the Centre not to grant any permission to increase the airport traffic in the Agra airfield until further orders.

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In view of the emergent need to increase air traffic, the Airports Authority of India has sought to modify the earlier order.
AAI, in its application, said that the authority after taking into consideration the UDAN-RCS Scheme along with the other factors proposed development of New Civil Enclave at the existing Civil Enclave to provide state-of-the-art facilities to passengers and boost the tourist inflow in the city.

โ€œThat the new enclave having a building area of 30,000 sq. mtr. is proposed on the area which falls inside the geographical limits of the Taj Trapezium Zone. That the proposed area is free from all encumbrances and has been transferred by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to the Applicants,โ€ AAI said in its plea.
AAI submitted that the top court vide its order dated December 4 2019 and December 11 2019 has already granted permission for the construction of the New Civil Enclave.

The applicant submitted that despite the permission already been granted by the Court to construct the New Civil Enclave, the Applicant is unable to construct the said New Civil Enclave as the embargo placed upon the increase of air traffic by the Court makes the entire project infeasible and non-viable.

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Passenger Opens Emergency Exit Door Of Chennai-Tiruchirappalli IndiGo Flight

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A passenger on an IndiGo, Chennai-Tiruchirappalli flight opened the emergency door on December 10 the Directorate General of Civil Aviation

New Delhi: A passenger on an IndiGo, Chennai-Tiruchirappalli flight opened the emergency door on December 10, last year, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) informed through an official communication on Tuesday, adding that it had taken due note of the incident and has ordered a probe into it.

A previous comunication from the DGCA said the flight was bound for Trivandrum, but the carrier later issued a clarification saying it was flying to Tiruchirappalli. In what is the latest in a string of incidents of passenger misconduct, coming on the back of two alleged peeing incidents onboard two Air India (AI) international flights, the passenger, whose identity was yet to be ascertained, opened the emergency door leaving the others onboard the IndiGo flight 6E-7339.
However, there was no untoward incident as the flight hadnโ€™t yet taken off.

Confirming that the flight regulator had taken note of the incident, a senior DGCA official told ANI, โ€œThe incident was duly reported. It appears that the passenger opened the RH emergency exit door by mistake while the aircraft was still on the ground. The crew moved in swiftly and all appropriate action to restore airworthiness such as reinstalling the door, pressurisation check was carried out before the flight was cleared for departure. No safety protocol was compromised with.โ€

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In an earlier incident on Novmber 26 last year, Shankar Mishra, a passenger on a business-class flight from New York to New Delhi allegedly relieved himself on a 70-year-old woman passenger in an inebriated state.

Delhi Police registered an FIR against the passenger on January 4 on a complaint by the elderly passenger. The case was filed under IPC sections 354, 509, and 510 and Section 23 of the Indian Aircraft Act.

Amid a huge public outcry over the incident, US-based financial services company Wells Fargo, where Mishra worked, terminated his contract.
He was eventually appherended from Bengaluru.

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