{"id":622562,"date":"2023-12-14T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622562"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:43:48","slug":"indigo-pilot-moves-hc-seeking-permission-to-carry-kirpan-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-pilot-moves-hc-seeking-permission-to-carry-kirpan-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo pilot moves HC seeking permission to carry \u2018kirpan\u2019 on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot working with IndiGo, a private airline, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking direction from the Union government to allow him to carry a `kirpan&#8217; while flying.<\/p>\n<p>Kirpan is a short knife with a curved blade, worn, sometimes in miniature form, as one of the five distinguishing signs of the Sikh Khalsa. Angad Singh, a pilot with InterGlobe Aviation which operates IndiGo, claimed in the petition filed before the Nagpur bench of the high court that he has the right to carry a kirpan as part of the freedom of religion guaranteed under Article 25 of the Indian Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot working with IndiGo, a private airline, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking direction from the Union government to allow him to carry a `kirpan&#8217; while flying. Kirpan is a short knife with a curved blade, worn, sometimes in miniature form, as one of the five distinguishing signs of the Sikh Khalsa. Angad Singh, a pilot with InterGlobe Aviation which operates IndiGo, claimed in the petition filed before the Nagpur bench of the high court that he has the right to carry a kirpan as part of the freedom of religion guaranteed under Article 25 of the Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622562","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}