Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 412 · Decided 12 May 2016
Jeeja Ghosh & ANR. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 412 · [2016] 4 S.C.R. 638
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 98/2012
- Decided
- 12 May 2016
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, R.K. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21
Headnote
Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 - Public Interest Litigation - By a differently abled person - Alleging that she was de-boarded from aircraft (of private airlines) due to her disability - Plea that the act resulted in trauma - And it amounted to violence to her human dignity and infringed her fundamental rights guaranteed u/Art. 14 and 21 of the Constitution - Held: The problems of the differently a bled are to be viewed from human rights perspective - Persons with disabilities do not need sympathy but
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