Jeeja Ghosh v Union of India (2016)

Human Rights Law · National Commission for Backward Classes

Facts.

A woman with cerebral palsy was offloaded from a flight as “unfit to fly,” without any medical examination.

Issue.

Did removing a disabled passenger without cause violate her rights?

Held.

Yes. The Court held that disability is no ground for exclusion; reasonable accommodation and respect for dignity are rights, and it awarded her compensation.

Why it matters.

A leading Indian statement of the CRPD’s dignity-and-accommodation model, and the answer to the disabled-passenger fact-pattern.

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