Court, Judiciary & Legal System Harassment Alert at Air India: Airlines received 8 sexual-harassment complaints in first half of 2019 August 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Air India received eight sexual harassment complaints internally during the first half of this year as compared to the total 10 complaints in 2018, sources said. On May 16 this year, Airline’s Chief Ashwani Lohani told the employees through a text message that sexual harassment cases are “often” being witnessed in Air India and the airline needs to come down “very very […] Read more » Air India harassment alert sexual harassment
Top Law News High Court asks Air India to release salary of grounded pilot April 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today directed national carrier Air India to release the salary of a pilot, who was grounded in 2016 after being allegedly tested positive for alcohol consumption before and after flights on two occasions. Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked the airline why it had withdrawn the full salary of the pilot and how […] Read more » Air India Delhi High Court DGCA Director General Civil Aviation featured High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher
Top Law News AI to pay compensation of Rs 1L for serving stale food September 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Air India has been directed to pay Rs one lakh by the apex consumer commission as compensation for serving stale food to a passenger aboard a Mumbai-New York flight. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, while dismissing the revision petition filed by the airline in 2015, said “the nature of deficiency in service” could have […] Read more » Air India Compensation Court featured Law Legal News
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC raps government over state of affairs in Air India October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With Air India grappling with financial crisis, the Supreme Court has rapped the government for giving “profitable routes” to private carriers and asked it to plan a turnaround in the national carrier saying it “faces extinction” if things continued like this. “Why many lucrative routes have been given to private carriers,” a bench comprising justices […] Read more » Air India Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi Civil Aviation Ministry Dharmadhikari report on the merger of the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India Justice Kurian Joseph justices Vikramjit Sen merger of the Indian Airlines and Air India
Corporate Law News Airhostess moves SC to get her contract renewed by Air India May 8, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Salome Sinosit an air hostess has moved to Supreme Court of India for directions to the company to take her back because her contract was not renewed by an Air India subsidiary on the grounds that she has become overweight. Petitioner Salome Sinosit, 39, was an airhostess in Airline Allied Services Limited, a subsidiary of Air India. […] Read more » Air India Air India subsidiary Airline Allied Services Limited company violates civil and human rights Salome Sinosit Supreme Court of India
Top Law News HC dismisses plea against A-I’s decision April 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Petitions challenging Air-India’s decision to transfer engineering workers to a subsidiary company of the airline has been dismissed by the Bombay High Court. Observing that employees have no vested right to question the policy of employer to reorganise or hive off workers, the Bombay High Court has dismissed petitions challenging Air-India’s decision to transfer engineering […] Read more » Air India Air-India Aircraft Engineers Association Air-India Engineering Services Ltd airline capitalises Bombay High Court Petitions challenging Air-India the Union government Turn Around Policy
Corporate Law News Plea for stay on extension of AI flight duty time rejected: HC February 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has refused to stay Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh’s order to extend the flight duty time limitation (FDTL) of Air India pilots and cabin crew, saying it was their duty to enable Air India to “pull through” the “financial crisis.” “Since the respondent Airlines is going through a crucial financial crisis, […] Read more » Air Craft Rules Air India Air India flight duty time rejected Air India pilots and cabin crew annual limitation of flying hours Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh civil aviation requirements Delhi High Court DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation FDTL FDTL and FTL financial crisis flight duty time limitation Flight Time Limitation grave financial crisis Justice Suresh Kait Memorandum of Settlement Union and the Airlines
Criminal Law News 1981 AI plane hijack: Two move court for stay of fresh trial December 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two alleged Sikh militants, sent back to India in 2000 after serving a life term in Pakistan for hijacking an Air India plane to that country in 1981, have moved a Delhi court seeking stay of a fresh trial against them here for the same offence. The two, in their plea to Additional Chief Metropolitan […] Read more » Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sameer Bajpai Air India Delhi High Court FIR Gajender Singh hijacking an Air India plane India in 2000 Jasbir Singh Jima Karan Singh Kini land in Pakistan Pakistan section 82 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings Sikh militants Tejinder Pal Singh and Satnam Singh
Top Law News SC notice to Centre on plea for probe of AI aircraft purchase September 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Union of India other respondents on a petition seeking probe into the “unnecessary” purchase of 111 aircraft for the national carrier costing Rs 67,000 crore to the exchequer. The Apex Court bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice CK Prasad issued notice on a petition by […] Read more » Air India Air India giving away its bilateral rights to foreign carriers Apex Court bench of Justice HL Dattu benefit of private airlines Central Bureau of Investigation Central Vigilance Commission Centre for Public Interest Litigation decisions causing loss to the exchequer Justice CK Prasad plea for probe of AI aircraft purchase purchase of 111 aircraft for the national carrier purchase of aircraft SC notice to Centre on plea for probe of AI aircraft purchase Special Investigation Team Supreme Court issued notices to the Union of India
Top Law News AI withdraws contempt petition against pilots in SC August 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Air India on Monday withdrew its plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the office bearers of Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) for allegedly obstructing the implementation of its order on training of pilots for the Dreamliner aircraft. Appearing before a bench headed by justice TS Thakur, advocate Lalit Bhasin said the national carrier no longer wants […] Read more » advocate Lalit Bhasi AI withdraws contempt petition AI withdraws contempt petition against pilots in SC Air India allegedly obstructing the implementation Boeing 787 Dreamliners Indian Airlines Indian Pilots Guild justice TS Thakur training of pilots to fly Boeing 787
Top Law News Air India to pay Rs.75 lakh to crash victims July 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed Air India to pay interim compensation of Rs.75 lakh each to the kin of 158 passengers who died in an air crash in Mangalore last year. The direction was made by Justice P.R. Ramachandran Menon following a petition by the family of Mohammed Rafi, who died in the […] Read more » air crash in Mangalore Air India crash victims Justice P.R. Ramachandran Menon Kerala High Court Mangalore
Media & Entertainment News Striking Air India pilots seek prime minister’s intervention May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With both the court and the management taking a stern view on their persistence with their stir despite contempt proceedings, 600-odd pilots of Air India on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to end the impasse. As the strike entered the seventh day, the state-run carrier has cancelled 165 flights in the domestic and […] Read more » Air India intervention Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Veena Birbal pilots prime minister seek striking
