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Bangalore, May 20 It is official. The nearly 50-year-old HAL airport will close down commercial airline operations from the midnight of May 22/ 23.

Bangalore’s new airport operator BIAL on Tuesday placed before the Karnataka High Court a gazette notification to this effect and issued by the Centre on May 16. The notification simultaneously permits BIAL to commence operations.

BIAL’s counsel and former Advocate-General, Mr Uday Holla, who placed the notification before a Division Bench comprising Mr Justice Rammohan Reddy and Mr Justice Jawed Rahim, said this applied to both, domestic and international flight operations.

The submission was made when the court was hearing an interlocutory application against by Mr B. Krishna Bhat, a resident of Bangalore, seeking a direction to the Centre and the Airports Authority of India to retain the HAL airport for domestic flight operations even after the new airport opens.

He urged the court to direct the authorities to maintain “continuous usage” of HAL airport till the matter is finally decided by the court.

The Bench adjourned further hearing on the matter to May 22.

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