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The Supreme Court connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) refused to entertain a plea seeking absorption to the Centre to instrumentality a time-bound determination connected the Maharashtra government's connection regarding the renaming of the Navi Mumbai International Airport.
The Maharashtra authorities had projected to rename the Navi Mumbai International Airport arsenic 'Lokneta D B Patil Navi Mumbai International Airport'.
"This volition magnitude to indulging successful argumentation making," a seat of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi told the counsel appearing for the petitioner organisation 'Prakashjhot Samajik Sanstha'.
The Bench said it was not inclined to entertain the plea challenging a November 2025 bid of the Bombay High Court, which had dismissed the petition.
The Bench granted liberty to the petitioner to prosecute the lawsuit earlier the competent authority.
"Is it the relation of the tribunal that what should beryllium the sanction of an airport?" the Bench observed.
