00:00and we move into a big breaking news coming in from the court chilebi aviation the turkish
00:12company that was responsible for handling ground handling and airport services in many airport and
00:18was later on subsequently removed after a dgca directive after operations who had gone to court
00:26against it and the court has issued a detailed ruling addressing all legal questions that were
00:31raised by this turkish company the court emphasized that national security is a top priority even if it
00:37means some usual procedural steps might be limited the director general of the bureau of civil aviation
00:47security has the authority to revoke security clearances based on information from intelligence
00:54or law enforcement agencies so joining us right now is india today's anisha mathur anisha the court
01:06has clearly stated that national security takes precedence over the company's interest can you
01:11give us more details about this uh order well yes let's look at the allegations that the had been
01:19raised the arguments that had been raised by the company and the response that has been given by
01:23the delhi high court it's a 94 page verdict in detail every argument has been considered by the delhi high
01:30court bench of justice achandatta now first of all remember the celibate had celibate had raised the
01:37uh vermin that they were not given adequate hearing before their contract was cancelled that their contract
01:43had recently been renewed that this is a violation of natural justice they had also said that the
01:50airport rules there etc do not allow such a unilateral decision to be taken in response the what the
01:57court has said that is any action taken for uh and i'm right quoting from the judgment here any action
02:03taken by the direct dgca for the purpose of revocation of security clearance on the basis of inputs received
02:11from law enforcement or intelligence agency cannot be considered to be act inconsistent with the aircraft
02:17rules 2023 additionally the court has also accepted the center's uh submission to uh to show documents
02:27in sealed cover because after celibai had raised this these environments the court had asked on what
02:31basis have you decided to cancel this contract the reasoning was given by the center in a sealed cover
02:38which was opposed by the council appearing for celibai here however the court has said that this was valid
02:45that then there is necessity and i'm quoting again necessity of maintaining secrecy in respect
02:51of documents on the basis of which security clearance has been revoked the disclosure of the same would
02:56not be conducive to security and safety considerations in fact the court has also analyzed the documentation
03:04that was given by the center and has said that while they cannot go into details they've noted that there
03:10is a necessity to eliminate possibility of espionage or dual logistics capabilities which would be highly
03:17detrimental to the security of the country especially in the event of an external conflict so clearly the
03:25center taking the stand that uh celibai's presence in the the ground operations could have had certain
03:33national security implications and the high court seems to have accepted that argument additionally they've said
03:39that while principles of natural justice are in fact sacrosanct the compelling constitutional truth is that
03:46natural security concerns the security of a realm is the precondition for any rights so all of these
03:53together means that the high court has accepted the government's stance and has uh upheld the government's
03:59decision to cancel celibai's ground operations contract back to you thank you alisha for all those details so
04:06the turkish company then will continue to stay away from all ground handling and passenger services contracts
04:14that they earlier had
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