A Delhi court has issued notices to Bird ExecuJet Airport Services Private Limited and Delhi airport operator DIAL (Delhi International Airport Ltd), in an alleged case of violation of copyright laws, theft, and criminal breach of trust.
Built at a cost of Rs.150 crore over one-and-a-half years, the terminal has the capacity to handle a maximum of 150 business jet movements a day. The average movement capacity of the terminal is 75 jets per day, which makes it a general aviation terminal with the highest capacity in entire south Asia.
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However, eight months before the inauguration, in February 2020, Mark Martin, chief executive officer of Dubai-based aviation firm Martin Consulting, which was executing the general aviation terminal project until February 2019, when the contract was terminated, alleged theft and unlawful use of Martin Consulting’s work and intellectual property and filed a complaint with the Delhi Police against DIAL and Bird ExecuJet (a joint venture between Bird Group and ExecuJet Aviation Group, an international business aviation company based at Zurich Airport in Switzerland).
Bharat S Kumar, counsel for Martin Consulting, told CNN news18 that with the evidence involved, including the acceptance of pilfering of data by Mark’s erstwhile employee, not only to Mark, but before the IO himself, we are certain that Mark would get justice.
“Going ahead, we believe an FIR in the case is imperative to investigate further and retrieve all electronic evidence from accused parties,” said Tanvir Ahmed Mir, another counsel representing Martin. Reacting to the development, Bird ExecuJet said Mark Martin had filed an application for registration of FIR which was dismissed.
“As per the inputs from Bird Execujet, post dismissal of application for filing FIR, Martin had filed the application before the Delhi High Court challenging the dismissal and the application was further withdrawn by Martin as was not maintainable. Thereafter, Martin filed the Revision Petition before the Sessions Court, Dwarka and in response, Dwarka Court has on 28 Oct 2021, issued a notice of the Revision Petition to all the respondents. ,” the firm said.
It said, there is no order against the Bird Execujet. “The court has only issued the notice of the revision petition of which a reply will be filed and after hearing the arguments the court will pass its orders. The notice is being issued in revision application to decide whether FIR can be registered or not because the metropolitan magistrate had already dismissed application and held that FIR is not registrable,” Bird ExecuJet said in a statement to CNN news18.
The company further added that Martin Consulting had been engaged by them as a project management consultant to prepare a study on the general aviation project. And its contract was terminated because it was unable to deliver on its contractual obligations, it said.
Queries sent by CNN news18 to DIAL, for a comment, remained unanswered.
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