Turkey's Celebi sues India over 'vague' clearance pullback amid Pakistan conflict

By Arpan Chaturvedi and Aditya Kalra

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Turkey-based Celebi, which provides airdrome crushed handling successful India, has launched a ineligible situation to New Delhi's determination to overturn its information clearance, arguing that "vague" nationalist information concerns were cited without reasoning.

Amid increasing nationalist choler successful India astir Turkey's stance connected Pakistan successful the India-Pakistan conflict, the Indian authorities connected Thursday revoked Celebi's information clearance successful the "interest of nationalist security".

Celebi Airport Services India, successful a May 16 filing seen by Reuters, asked the Delhi High Court to acceptable speech that decision, arguing it would interaction 3,791 jobs and capitalist confidence, and was issued without immoderate informing to the company.

"Mere rhetoric of nationalist information without elaborating upon successful what mode is an entity a menace to nationalist information is unsustainable successful law," the institution said successful the filing, which is not public.

The bid "fails to disclose immoderate circumstantial oregon substantive crushed but for a vague and wide notation to 'national security'... (it) provides nary reasons oregon justification," it added.

India's authorities did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The lawsuit is apt to beryllium heard connected Monday.

In its filing, Celebi said that portion its shareholders were registered successful Turkey, "majority extremity control" of the radical is held by companies that bash not person Turkish incorporation oregon origin.

In revoking Celebi's clearance connected Thursday, India's inferior aviation curate Murlidhar Mohol said connected X the authorities had received requests from crossed India to prohibition Celebi. "Recognising the seriousness of the contented and the telephone to support nationalist interests, we person taken cognizance of these requests," helium said.

The Shiv Sena party, a cardinal state successful Modi's government, had held protests against Celebi successful Mumbai this week, demanding the city's airdrome sever ties with it.

Celebi successful its filing said it was providing crushed handling services astatine airports successful New Delhi, Kerala, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Goa.

It had undergone inheritance checks and information verifications by assorted nationalist information and quality agencies successful India earlier starting work, it added.

Delhi Airport precocious connected Thursday said connected X it had "officially ended its relation with Celebi" for crushed handling and cargo operations.

Reuters reported connected Friday that Air India was lobbying Indian officials to halt rival IndiGo's leasing tie-up with Turkish Airlines, citing concern interaction arsenic good arsenic information concerns sparked by Istanbul's enactment for Pakistan.

(Reporting by Arpan Chaturvedi, Editing by William Maclean and Jan Harvey)