NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Jharkhand government plea and upheld HC’s decision to quash an FIR against BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey, Manoj Tiwari, and other persons related to the 2022 Deoghar airport incident where allegedly the Air Traffic Control (ATC) was forced to give clearance for an unscheduled chartered flight.
Raising questions on how police can conduct investigation for violation of Aircraft Act, a bench of Justices A S Oka and Manmohan asked the state to forward the materials collected during investigation to the authorised officer who can take a decision whether a complaint against MPs needed to be filed under the Act.
FIR was registered on a complaint by the in-charge of security at the Deoghar airport. The MPs had allegedly forced Deoghar ATC personnel to clear their chartered flight to take off after the scheduled permitted time on Aug 31, 2022, in violation of security protocol at airports.