Rajesh Mishra v. the Municipal Corporation of Delhi & Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Rule 91 Aircraft Rules 1937; aerodrome vicinity; slaughter/flaying prohibition within 10 km; DGCA written permission proviso; meat chicken fish shops; MCD licence cancellation/withdrawal under policy; de-sealing; DDA Commercial Estates Branch order dated 20.09.2018; DGCA letter dated 29.05.2018; Dabri Mor Pocket 20-C Palm Road New Delhi; Master Plan of Delhi 2021; licence fee Rs. 750; vultures/birds attraction; indemnity bond; Umar Sarif v. Government of NCT of Delhi W.P.(C) 1260/2015; Justice Pushkar.
What did the court decide?
On perusal, Rule 91 of the Aircraft Rules, 1937 categorically shows that no person shall slaughter or flay animals or deposit rubbish/refuse or any polluted or obnoxious material which attracts or is likely to attract vultures or other birds and animals within a radius of ten kilometres from the aerodrome precincts; the Rule contains a proviso under which the Director General/Joint Director General of Civil Aviation, if satisfied that proper and adequate arrangements have been made by owners of hotels, meat shops, fish shops and bone processing mills to prevent attraction of vultures/birds towards the place of slaughter/aerodrome, grants permission in writing for the said purpose.