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Delhi High Court — challenge to the flight ban on e-cigarettes (2022)

Delhi High Court, Delhi · Status: Ongoing

AVI is fighting this case today. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security prohibits carrying e-cigarettes in checked or cabin baggage on flights — a separate legal basis from PECA, so this dispute sits outside the national ban and remains open regardless of PECA's status. AVI identified and briefed two consumer petitioners, both vapers who had devices confiscated at Indian airports, retained counsel, and has directed the litigation since — arguing the ban is unsupported by any evidence of in-flight risk and conflicts with the government's own position that ENDS should be regulated rather than prohibited outright. The named petitioners are the individual consumers AVI brought forward, not AVI itself.

Outcome: Ongoing, and AVI is running it: retaining and instructing counsel, reviewing every draft, and supplying the legal and scientific research behind the arguments. Arguments have reached the merits, with a hearing scheduled for 15 September 2026.

Shortened at the site owner’s request: court and year only, no case numbers.