MUDIT GUPTA vs AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ANR

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 9 July 2025 Pronounced on: 16 October 2025 W.P.(C) 938/2025 & CM APPL. 4579/2025 MUDIT GUPTA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. S.K. Rungta, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv. versus AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Digvijay Rai, SC with Mr. Archit Mishra, Adv. for R-1/AAI with Mr. Subhash Kumar, AGM (HR), Ms. Priyanka Rana, AM (HR) Mr. Yatinder Choudhary, Law Officer (Law) and Mr. Jayesh Bhargava, JE (Law) (AAI) Mr. Vinay Yadav, Sr. PC with Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma, GP with Mr. Ansh Kalra, Ms. Kamna Behrani and Mr. Siddharth Gautam, Advs. with for R-2/UOI W.P.(C) 61/2025, CM APPLs. 179/2025, 18023/2025, 33106/2025 & 33107/2025 AMIT KUMAR AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Mr. S.K. Rungta, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv. versus AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA .....Respondent Through: Mr. Digvijay Rai, SC with Mr. Archit Mishra, Adv. for R-1/AAI with Mr. Subhash Kumar, AGM (HR), Ms. Priyanka 1. Said Lady Smart, from Jonathan Swift’s “Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues”, penned early in the 18th century – “There’s none so blind as they that won’t see”. 2. We, in this batch of cases, are faced w