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The Kerala High Court has dismissed petitions filed by the Kerala government and others challenging the Centre’s decision to lease Thiruvananthapuram international airport to Adani Enterprises. A division bench of the High Court comprising Justices K Vinod Chandran and C S Dias delivered the verdict, dismissing arguments raised by the state government and others opposing the Centre’s decision to lease out the airport to Adani Enterprises Limited.
The Kerala government, on August 21, had moved the high court seeking a stay on further proceedings in leasing Thiruvananthapuram international airport to Adani Enterprises. The state government had filed the application in the court, after an all-party-meeting in Kerala demanded withdrawal of the Union Cabinet’s decision to lease the airport to Adani Enterprises.
Last year, the high court had dismissed the petition challenging the decision, terming it as not maintainable under Article 226 of the Constitution.
The Adani Enterprises had won the rights to run six airports — Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram and Guwahati — through the PPP model after a competitive bidding process in February, 2019.
