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2025 Supreme(Online)(Del) 7484

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
C. HARI SHANKAR, AJAY DIGPAUL, JJ
MUDIT GUPTA – Appellant
Versus
AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA AND ANR – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. S.K. Rungta, Sr. Adv., Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv.
For the Respondents: Mr. Digvijay Rai, SC, Mr. Archit Mishra, Adv., Mr. Vinay Yadav, Sr. PC, Mr. Rahul Kumar Sharma, GP, Ms. Nidhi Raman, CGSC, Mr. Akash Mishra, Adv.

Table of Content
1. the capacity to understand versus physical sight. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. facts surrounding the petitioner's application and selection. (Para 5 , 6 , 7)
3. arguments about the interpretation of disability and job requirements. (Para 9 , 10)
4. court's analysis of the functional requirements in relation to disabilities. (Para 12 , 13 , 14 , 15)
5. conclusion on legal standing of the case, regarding functional requirements. (Para 19 , 20)
C. HARI SHANKAR, J.

WP (C) 938/2025 [Mudit Gupta v Airports Authority of India & others]

1. Said Lady Smart, from Jonathan Swift’s “Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues”, penned early in the 18th century – “There’s none so blind as they that won’t see”.

2. We, in this batch of cases, are faced with the question – Can the blind see?

3. Law, however, has a habit of complicating the simplest of issues.

4. We have, in the pantheon of Counsel in our Court, lawyers such as Mr. Rungta, who argued these matters with characteristic poise and composure, and Mr. Rahul Bajaj, who have triumphantly breached the boundary between blindness and vision. We have often wondered, after observing them at their best, whether they are not more accomplished than

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