The Ideally suited Courtroom on Wednesday advised the Uttarakhand Prime Courtroom to briefly come to a decision two separate petitions filed by way of aviation company Deccan Charters Pvt Ltd. The petition demanding situations the repeated brief takeover of its personal helipad at Govind Ghat by way of the state executive.

The Ideally suited Courtroom on Wednesday advised the Uttarakhand Prime Courtroom to briefly come to a decision two separate petitions filed by way of aviation company Deccan Charters Pvt Ltd. The petition demanding situations the repeated brief takeover of its personal helipad at Govind Ghat by way of the state executive.

A bench of Leader Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi directed the Registrar Common of the Uttarakhand Prime Courtroom in Nainital to hunt directions from the Leader Justice and checklist the 2 pending petitions prior to an acceptable bench within the week beginning March 9, 2026.

The Ideally suited Courtroom additional requested the excessive court docket bench listening to the subject to come to a decision the pleas inside of two months.

Regarding the approaching Char Dham Yatra within the state, the bench stated that if the pleas aren’t determined throughout the given time, the aviation corporate would possibly method the apex court docket once more for revival of its petition. In its plea filed via recommend Smarhar Singh, Deccan Charters Pvt Ltd termed the repeated takeover of its personal helipad by way of the state as “unlawful, unabated and unconstitutional”.

The corporate alleged that the state executive bypassed due procedure at hand over the operational helipad to a competitor, Pawan Hans Restricted. It additionally claimed that the excessive court docket had now not determined the subject regardless of a number of pressing pleas. Deccan Charters has been working helicopter travel products and services for the Shri Hemkund Sahibji Yatra since 2011.

The company holds a sound rent for the Govind Ghat helipad in Chamoli district till March 2027. Alternatively, it alleged that since Might 2024, the state management has time and again taken over the helipad below the pretext of brief acquisition all through the Yatra season.

In step with the plea, the primary takeover by way of the state executive used to be performed on Might 23, 2024. Deccan Charters challenged this motion prior to the excessive court docket in 2024. The second one acquisition came about on June 27, 2025. The corporate stated that whilst the primary case used to be nonetheless pending, the state issued any other order obtaining the helipad for 6 extra months.

The petitioner alleged that the state government “broke the locks” of the helipad and passed over the ability, constructed and maintained by way of Deccan, to Pawan Hans Restricted for industrial operations. The corporate additionally alleged misuse of the federal government’s energy of “Eminent Area” with out following obligatory procedures below the Proper to Honest Reimbursement and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.

The petition sought quashing of the purchase orders dated Might 23, 2024, and June 27, 2025. It additionally sought instructions to revive ownership of the helipad to the company. Moreover, the company sought repayment for losses, calculated at Rs 5,000 in line with touchdown performed by way of Pawan Hans Ltd all through what it termed the “unlawful acquisition” length.

With the 2026 Char Dham Yatra scheduled to start in Might, the corporate has sought pressing intervention to prevent what it described as repeated administrative high-handedness. After listening to the plea, the Ideally suited Courtroom requested the Uttarakhand Prime Courtroom to come to a decision the subject expeditiously.

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