SC refuses to hear plea on cancellation of IndiGo flights, asks petitioner to move HC

The Supreme Court docket on Monday (December 15, 2025) stated the spate of cancellation of Indigo flights is a “grave and public” articulate, but declined to intervene on the bottom that the Delhi High Court docket is already listening to the case and the Director Total of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has fashioned a committee to analyze the lapse which left thousands stranded in airports.

A 3-mediate Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant addressed petitioner-in-particular person Narendra Mishra that it did not desire a parallel persevering with in the Supreme Court docket, that might per chance well well dissuade the High Court docket from persevering with to listen to the case before it.

Senior indicate Mukul Rohatgi, displaying for Indigo, apprised the court docket about the DGCA-constituted committee. He advised the Bench that the existence and work of the committee has been recorded in the High Court docket yell.

The petition had been mentioned in the Supreme Court docket final week for an urgent listening to, however the plea had been refused and allowed to come up for listening to this week in the routine system.

On the opposite hand, even the old week had viewed the court docket acknowledge that the cancellation had led to a disaster. 

“It is a severe matter. Lakhs of folk are stranded at the airports. We know that the authorities of India has taken successfully timed action and cognizance of the articulate. We know folk can cling health points and more than just a few well-known points and so on.,” Chief Justice Kant had stated.

Mr. Mishra stated the cancellations had been no longer advised to the passengers. He had added that spherical 2,500 flights had been delayed. Passengers had been stuck in 95 airports across the nation, many, feeble and young, had to mattress down on the bottom.

IndiGo had cancelled flights citing regulatory changes in the pilots’ flight duty and regulations norms since December 2.