India, Feb. 21 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) if it would, on humanitarian grounds, allow taxi and autorickshaw drivers to offer namaaz during the month of Ramzan in the vicinity of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.

A division bench of justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla was hearing a petition filed by Taxi-Rickshaw Ola-Uber Men's Union on January 19, to "protect the fundamental rights of thousands of devotees, who have been deprived of a place of temporary worship inside the airport premises".

The petition said there was a prayer shed for Muslims inside the airport periphery where they had been allowed to pray for 30 years. It was a s...