Bombay HC asks Civil Aviation Ministry to submit report on construction of metro near Juhu airport
India Today
Petitioner Harit Vipinchandra Desai claimed that if the metro rail line work is allowed to be commissioned by the MMRDA, there is a possibility of an accident of an aircraft arriving at or departing from Juhu airport.
The Bombay High Court has asked Rajiv Bansal, Secretary at Ministry of Civil Aviation to file a report on an issue raised by a petition concerning Juhu airport in Mumbai and the construction of metro rail around it.
The petitioner, Harit Vipinchandra Desai, had filed a writ petition stating that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had issued a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) in favour of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) to construct an overground metro rail line within the Funnel Zone to the East of the approach and take off climb surface of runways 26 and 08, respectively, of Juhu airport.