erstwhile Cochin Airport can be taken into consideration, in the category of 'others'. It is pertinent to note, on the basis of the observations made by this Court in an earlier Original Petition, the Management has decided to issue 20 passes to taxi drivers who were operating in the old Cochin Airport, and from the pleadings and the documents produced by the rival parties, it is quite clear and evident that those 20 taxi passes were issued. Therefore, now the paramount contention advanced by the appellant, the Cochin International Airport Ltd., is that by virtue of the understanding entered into by and between the taxi drivers of the erstwhile Cochin Airport, taxi passes are already issued and they are not entitled to make any further claim, especially due to the fact that the management of the appellant has evolved a scheme to provide taxi passes and according to which a definite decision was taken to give preference to the house evictees, then land evictees and then 'others'. However, the learned single Judge has directed the management of the appellant to earmark 20% of the passes for the drivers of the erstwhile Cochin
