The Delhi High Court Friday sought response of the Centre and DGCA on a plea challenging the Centre’s circular prohibiting travel of passengers from the European Union, the U.K., Turkey and European free trade association member nations from March 18 onwards to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic .
A Bench of Justices J.R. Midha and I.S. Mehta issued notice to ministries of health and home affairs and Directorate General of Civil Aviation seeking their stand on the plea.
The plea has been moved by the father of an Indian student stranded in Scotland and who is unable to return to the country.
Earlier in the day, the matter was mentioned before a Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Mehta which allowed it to be listed for hearing during the day. The Bench, however, declined to hear the matter itself as the daughter of Justice Mridul is stranded in the U.K.
Justice Mridul, while directing the matter to be listed before another Bench, asked the Centre to consider evacuating Indian citizens stranded in other coronavirus affected nations as it had done in China.
