IPG moves Bombay HC

Terming the de-recognition of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) as high-handed and draconian,the IPG has moved the Bombay High Court urging it to strike down two letters issued by Air India under which the IPG was de-recognised and its premises sealed.

The IPG has contended that after the Supreme Court,in April,vacated a stay granted on the 1:1 policy under which one pilot from the AI and Indian Airlines would train to fly Boeing 777,the AI management was emboldened and began issuing command-training letters to pilots from Indian Airlines.

They stated that the AI had neither issued any notice to them nor given them a hearing prior to the de-recognition.

A vacation bench of the High Court is likely to hear the petition on Friday,said IPGs lawyer Jamshed Mistry.