Rights of differently-abled persons during air travel: Objections/suggestions pertaining to Draft of revised guidelines dt. 2-7-2021 regarding “Carriage by Air of Persons with Disability and/or Persons with Reduced Mobility” put in public domain in the year 2021, directed to be submitted within stipulated time. Further, suggestions that (i) No differently-abled person should be manually lifted without his consent since it is inhumane; and (ii) Differently-abled persons with prosthetic limbs/callipers should be checked for the purpose of security in a manner where no such person is asked to remove prosthetic limbs/callipers to maintain human dignity while ensuring the requirement of security checks, should be considered. DGCA directed to consider suggestions/objections submitted by petitioners.

 [Jeeja Ghosh v. Union of India, (2022) 1 SCC 202]

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