Delhi High Court Rules in Favor of Blind Candidate
The Delhi High Court has quashed the Airports Authority of India's (AAI) rejection of a blind candidate for Junior Executive (Law).
The court held that the ability to "see" must be understood beyond the physical sense of sight, as seen in the case Mudit Gupta v Airport Authority of India and Anr.
There's none so blind as they that won't see
A Division Bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and Ajay Digpaul invoked this quote from Jonathan Swift's book Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues, posing a philosophical question: Can the blind see? The court drew a distinction between the physical act of seeing and the functional capacity of perception and cognition.
Author's summary: Court rules for blind candidate.