AAI serves eviction notice to Hotel Leela for non-payment of Rs 258 cr dues

The decision to issue eviction notice follows a lengthy litigation for recovery of dues

Airports Authority of India (AAI) has issued an eviction notice to Hotel Leela in Mumbai, for non-payment of Rs 258 crore in dues.

Hotel Leela Venture Ltd, which operates the 391-room five-star property near the CSI airport, got the notice earlier this week. The decision was made public on Thursday, ironically Hotel Leela’s founder, the late C P Krishnan Nair’s, 95th birth anniversary.

Hotel Leela was among the first five-star properties to come up near the airport when the latter began operations a little over three decades earlier. This is also the Leela group’s first hotel. 

The decision to issue the notice followed