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The Kerala High Court has passed an interim bid to enactment the FIR filed against 2 U.S. citizens for allegedly flying drones successful defence areas. They were reportedly flying the drone successful a reddish portion adjacent the Coast Guard office and INS Dronacharya, a gunnery and rocket grooming constitution successful Fort Kochi.
A Single Bench of Justice C.S. Dias noted that the offences charged against the petitioners were from a repealed law, namely, the Aircraft Act, 1934. The Act was replaced with Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024.
Advocate Niharika Hema Raj appeared for the petitioners.
The FIR was registered astatine the Fort Kochi constabulary presumption against Katie Michelle Phelps and Christopher Ross Harvey. The tribunal has stayed the FIR for a play of 2 months, noting that the petitioners had prima facie made retired a lawsuit for the order, successful their petition to quash the transgression proceedings.
