The Bombay High Court refused to stop criminal proceedings on an Air India pilot who did not wear mask and whose saliva droplets allegedly flew in the face of a Directorate General of Civil Aviation inspector when he was arguing with him over sanitisation measures of simulators.

Captain Rajneesh Sharma’s plea to quash the FIR filed by the airport police station on July 3, 2020 was dismissed by a bench of 2 judges. He was booked under IPC sections including 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), as per Times of India.