IndiGo to Punjab and Haryana HC: Willing to start Chandigarh to Dubai-city flight this summer

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The division bench comprising Justices S S Saron and Gurmit Ram ordered the Central government to ensure customs and immigration facility gets operational at the Chandigarh airport by April 25. The directions came after the court was also informed that as per the Ministry of Home Affairs, installation of required infrastructure and placement of trained immigration staff at the Chandigarh airport might take at least two months.

During the April 4 meeting, IndiGo reaffirmed its commitment to starting Chandigarh-Dubai flight in summer schedule 2016 (March 27 to October 29). The Indigo representative said that they were planning to start operation on Mumbai-Dubai-Chandigarh-Delhi and Delhi-Chandigarh-Dubai-Mumbai sectors. But since IndiGo has failed to obtain slots at Mumbai airport, it might replace Mumbai with Hyderabad to make the operations on the route viable. The Civil Aviation Ministry has also decided to allow IndiGo to operate ground handling facility itself with a view to expediting international operations.

The meeting minutes read, “IndiGo’s representative informed that the flight returning from Dubai to Chandigarh is required to be routed from Chandigarh to Delhi as domestic flight, and vice versa for the return leg. IndiGo has applied to customs, both at Delhi and Punjab, for seeking permission to carry duty-free bonded liquor under transshipment bond from Delhi to Chandigarh for use on its onward flights from Chandigarh to Dubai and vice versa.”

Also, Air India said that they were planning to connect Chandigarh to foreign destinations through combo flights and a standard operating procedure had been submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs for seeking security clearance which had been approved.

However, Jet Airways said that they did not have any immediate plan to commence international flights from Chandigarh. Spice Jet said that since they had recently started international operations from Amritsar to Dubai, they did not have any plans to commence international flights from Chandigarh.

The development took place during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation filed by the Mohali Industries Association seeking starting of international flights from Chandigarh. The case will now come up for hearing on April 25.

High Court shifts 78 judges of Haryana  

DISTRICT AND Sessions Judge, Panchkula, Ravi Kumar Sondhi has been transferred to Rewari and he would be replaced by District and Sessions Judge, Kaithal, Ritu Tagore.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued transfer orders of 78 judges of Haryana. Special CBI Judge, Panchkula, Rakesh Kumar Yadav has been transferred to Bhiwani. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Sonepat, Jagdeep Singh will take over as Special CBI Judge in Panchkula.

The additional district and sessions judges who have been transferred include Paramvir Nijjar from Chandigarh to Hisar, Najar Singh from Chandigarh to Narnaul, Lal Chand from Chandigarh to Jhajjar, Bhupinder Nath from Narnaul to Chandigarh, Rajan Walia from Kaithal to Panchkula and Amit Kumar Sharma from Panchkula to Palwal.

Civil judges (senior division)/chief judicial magistrates who have been transferred on promotion as additional district and sessions judges include Anubhav Sharma from Chandigarh to Palwal, Bhawna Jain from Panchkula to Karnal, Ashwani Kumar Mehta from Rohtak to Chandigarh. ENS