India, Dec. 17 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday declined to entertain a petition seeking directions to the Centre, and crisis hit IndiGo airline to pay four times the full ticket price as compensation to all passengers whose tickets were cancelled during recent flight disruptions.

Dealing with a petition filed by Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyay and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela opined that the issue was already being examined in another case and that multiple proceedings would not serve the passenger's interests.

To be sure, last week, the court, while dealing with a different petition filed by two advocates seeking a judicial inquiry into the mass cancellation of flights, and t...