Judge on flight fumes over mask violations
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:10.03.2021
A “stubborn reluctance” by passengers to wear masks properly on a flight he took has prompted a Delhi High Court judge to take suo motu notice of the “alar ming situation”.
Justice C Hari Shankar on Tuesday directed domestic airlines and DGCA to strictly comply with guidelines to enforce mask discipline among passengers and either offload the errant ones or put them in “no fly regimen” if they disobey rules mid air.
“Such a situation, in the present scenario, when the country is seeing a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, is completely unconscionable. Passengers in a flight are in a closed air-conditioned environment and even if one of the passengers suffers from Covid, the effect on other passengers could be cataclysmic. It is a matter of common knowledge that being within arm’s length distance of a Covid carrier, even if he is asymptomatic and is merely speaking, is more than sufficient to transmit the virus,” Justice Shankar noted, citing his experience on a Kolkata to New Delhi flight last week.
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