Senior politician Subramanian Swamy was today asked by the Supreme Court to move High Court with his plea challenging the clearance given to proposed low-cost airline AirAsia India saying he will have a better opportunity to address his grievances there.
A bench comprising, Justices B S Chauhan and S A Bobde, said it was not making any observation on merits of the matter and asked Swamy to move the high court.
"We want to have the advantage of the high court judgement," the apex court bench said while giving Swamy liberty to file the public interest litigation (PIL) in the high court.
It said the high court verdict will also help him in addressing those grievances by which he would feel aggrieved.
"We are at this moment not on the merits. It must be a good case in merits," the bench said while making it clear that his fundamental right to file the PIL in national interest can be enforced by the high court also.
"Every thing is ready. Don't take time to go to the High Court," the bench told Swamy whose Janata Party recently merged with BJP.
He said Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) cleared the proposal but the airline does not exist and FIPB cannot give nod to greenfield projects.
Swamy's PIL against the clearance to AirAsia to operate in India got resistance from senior advocate Abhishekh Singhvi, who was appearing for one of the respondents.
Singhvi said this PIL could be on behalf of a trade rival.
"He claims it to be in public interest but there is not a single line in the petition that it is in public interest," he said.
