New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday took a reserve decision on a petition by Celibi Airport Services Private Limited, which to withdraw the Turkish company’s security authority for ground handling operations at airports on national security concerns against a decision by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BACS) of the Center.A single-judge bench of Justice Sachin Dutta reserved the verdict after hearing senior advocate Mukul Rohtgi, representing Celibi, and Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, appeared to the Central Government. The court requested all the parties to submit a written statement by Monday. Cancelling Celebi’s security approval came after Operation Sindoor and Pakistan’s vengeance, including the use of Turkish weapons.Rohtgi argued that the principles of natural justice were violated, as Celebi neither received prior information nor information about the government’s desired works. The decision violated Rule 12 of the aircraft safety rules, 2023, invalidating it. The rule determines that the government will have to provide an opportunity to submit its case before suspending security approval. Any suspension requires all -old justification and may not exceed one year. Permission is given only on a proper basis for non-transportation with national security, civil aviation security, or security conditions.Rohtgi said that the Center was not concluded with full powers, as it was claimed, and the government was not open to say that it could be in violation of its own rules of providing an opportunity for hearing, canceling security approval.Celebi urged HC to check the materials provided in a seal cover until the firm was given an essence of the allegations that came to the fore. Before the government’s action, the firm should be kept on notice, Rohtgi said: “The notice has to say the proposed punishment on the basis of the cemetery of facts … In a given case you can prepare some information again … I should know something, or I should argue with newspapers?,
