The Bombay High Court has taken suo motu (on its own) cognisance of the closure of the Nagpur airport for eight hours daily since March 2024, and sought responses from the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airport Authority of India (AAI) and others.

The situation was causing a lot of inconvenience to passengers, it said. A division bench of Justices N W Sambre and Abhay Mantri on August 2 referred to media reports which claimed that very little had been done by way of repairs to restore normalcy in the last four months.