High Court stays state’s order on Birmi’s club

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the orders issued by the Punjab government directing former Punjab Minister Malikat Singh Birmi to dispossess the hangar in Patiala.
On July 12, Birmi had received orders from the Punjab government for dispossession of the hangar for the use of its club, Northern India Flying Club. Birmi had moved the court alleging that it was fallout of political and legal malafide.
A contempt petition against Birmi is already pending in the High Court. The Northern India Flying Club had filed the petition against Birmi’s flying academy. The club had claimed that despite a compromise between the two parties over mutual use of the hangar in Patiala Civil Aviation Airport, Birmi’s academy locked the hanger and kept the keys with itself.
Protesting this, the Northern India Flying Club had sought directions to Birmi for handing over the keys to them so that the club’s students could use it.
16/07/07 Chandigarh Newsline