Court asks pilots to do 'kar sewa'

For their "crime", an irked Justice Hima Kohli also asked them to keep standing in the courtroom till its rising while also asking the police to suspend the fire arms licence belonging to one of them.

The judge directed both the pilots Siddharth Singh and Kamal Singh Bijla to do 4 hours community service in a week for a year, asking the former to serve in a blinds' school in Vasant Kunj and the latter to help the ailing ones at Sanjay Gandhi Health Care centre.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on each of them, asking them to pay part of their fines to the dhaba cook and deposit a part of it to the high court's legal service committee.

The court awarded the punishment to the two pilots, accepting public prosecutor Navin Sharma's argument that "these type of highly educated and affluent people" like the duo want to flaunt their social and financial status by firing shots in the air and the court should not be lenient to them.

The court's order came on a petition by the two pilots, seeking quashing of the criminal case against them.

The case was registered following their altercation with two eatery people who had sustained minor injuries in the scuffle but had later made an out-of-court settlement of the issue.

The two pilots had on December 24 last year entered into an altercation with a dhaba cook and its owner in the Qutub Institutional area after the latter had objected to parking of their car in front of the eatery.