{"id":379533,"date":"2020-10-20T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=379533"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T06:23:26","slug":"thiruvananthapuram-airport-leasing-kerala-hc-rejects-state-govt-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thiruvananthapuram-airport-leasing-kerala-hc-rejects-state-govt-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiruvananthapuram airport leasing: Kerala HC rejects state govt plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala High Court on Monday rejected a petition of the Kerala government challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to lease out the international airport here to Adani Group. Hours after the high court verdict, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the media that the state is against handing over the airport to Adani group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur stand is against the lease out of the airport. The matter does not end with the high court verdict. Further action would be taken in it,\u201d the CM said.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the state\u2019s petition, a Bench of Justices K Vinod Chandran and CS Dias said, \u201cThe writ petitions filed by the State and the case set up by them, according to us, is a classic example of the proverbial \u2018sour grapes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala High Court on Monday rejected a petition of the Kerala government challenging the Centre\u2019s decision to lease out the international airport here to Adani Group. Hours after the high court verdict, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the media that the state is against handing over the airport to Adani group. \u201cOur stand is against the lease out of the airport. The matter does not end with the high court verdict. Further action would be taken in it,\u201d the CM said. Dismissing the state\u2019s petition, a Bench of Justices K Vinod Chandran and CS Dias said, \u201cThe writ petitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}