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PIL in Delhi HC to ground entire A320 neo fleet; hearing today

The PIL is in the wake of DGCA grounding 11 Airbus A320 neo aircraft last week, due to recurring engine malfunction

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Airbus A320 neo. Photo: Shutterstock

Arindam Majumder New Delhi
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court asking the aviation regulator DGCA to ground the entire fleet of Airbus A320 neo following the engine malfunction. The PIL will come up for hearing on Friday.

The petitioner, Yeshwant Shenoy, who is a lawyer on aviation security law, argued that DGCA has deliberately bend laws by not grounding entire fleet even though there has been incidents with the other planes too. 

The PIL is filed by Shenoy on the grounds that the DGCA "willfully and deliberately compromised Aviation safety by not complying with the Aircraft Act,

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