BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court quashed an order passed by a magistrate in Mangaluru taking cognisance of offences against Air India Limited and Airports Authority of India and their executives Ansbert D’Souza from Mumbai and Peter Abraham from Kerala, in relation to a plane crash that took place in 2010.
Allowing the criminal petitions filed by them, Justice Ashok G Nijagannavar observed that the people sought to be prosecuted were government servants. “Therefore, without sanction to prosecute, the complaint was not at all maintainable,” the judge said.
