The Supreme Court today asked BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to amend his plea, seeking the quashing of alliance between Jet Airways and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways by also challenging the bilateral agreement between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on increasing the number of flights between the two countries.
A bench comprising Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice U.U. Lalit also asked Swamy to implead other airlines as parties to the list as they may also get affected if the court decides in favour or against the Jet-Etihad deal.
Swamy later said he would make the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), Air India, IndiGo and SpiceJet party in the case.
During a brief hearing, additional solicitor-general P.S. Narsimha, appearing for the Centre, defended the deal saying that the agreement between two sovereign nations was an international treaty and could not be challenged like this.
Embarrassing his party leadership and the NDA government, Swamy questioned the solicitor-general's stout defence of the previous UPA dispensation's approval of the Jet-Ethihad deal.
"The government is in violation of the standing committee report of Parliament and the CAG reports. The previous government (UPA) had taken the decision. The present government is defending it, I am quite surprised by the decision," Swamy told the bench.
The matter has been adjourned till July 19, by which the Centre has to file its counter affidavit to Swamy's amended petition.
To Read the News in Full 15/03/16 The Telegraph
A bench comprising Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice U.U. Lalit also asked Swamy to implead other airlines as parties to the list as they may also get affected if the court decides in favour or against the Jet-Etihad deal.
Swamy later said he would make the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), Air India, IndiGo and SpiceJet party in the case.
During a brief hearing, additional solicitor-general P.S. Narsimha, appearing for the Centre, defended the deal saying that the agreement between two sovereign nations was an international treaty and could not be challenged like this.
Embarrassing his party leadership and the NDA government, Swamy questioned the solicitor-general's stout defence of the previous UPA dispensation's approval of the Jet-Ethihad deal.
"The government is in violation of the standing committee report of Parliament and the CAG reports. The previous government (UPA) had taken the decision. The present government is defending it, I am quite surprised by the decision," Swamy told the bench.
The matter has been adjourned till July 19, by which the Centre has to file its counter affidavit to Swamy's amended petition.
To Read the News in Full 15/03/16 The Telegraph
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