New Delhi, May 16 :     A public interest litigation today brought to light in Delhi High Court how the court's Chief Justice Arijit Passayat was humiliated by the 'misbehaviour' of the Indian Airlines staff. Narrating his experience with the airline during the hearings, Justice Passayat said: 'On May 8, I was asked by an airhostess to go to the back row seat to accommodate an MP, who wanted to sit in the front seat of the A-Class.' Justice Passayat was holding an A-Class ticket. The court took a serious view of Indian Airlines giving special treatment to politicians at the expense of other passengers and even 'humiliating' judges to accommodate MPs and MLAs. 'This is very serious. You cannot ask me to suffer and travel,' the judges observed during the hearings of the litigation, argued by advocate Rajiv Bansal. 'If this is the attitude of Indian Airlines, then who would like to travel by it? They have little respect even for judges,' Justice D.K. Jain, the other judge on the division bench, observed. The litigation challenges the government decision that prohibits high court judges from travelling in private airlines. It also contends that airport lounges outside metropolitan cities are 'too small' to accommodate passengers of a delayed flight. The judges asked the government to file its reply by May 22, the next date for hearing. Very 'humiliatingly', Justice Passayat said, 'the airhostess came to me and asked me to vacate the seat in the front row for an MP. She asked me to go to the back row as the MP wanted to sit in the executive class.' Government counsel H.S. Phoolka agreed with the observations and said the matter was 'serious' and the court should even take suo motu action against the airlines' officials concerned for 'misbehaviour'. But Justice Passayat said he was citing the incident as an example 'only' to point out the 'kind of service' Indian Airlines provided. 'Do you still expect people to travel by Indian Airlines?' the judges asked the government counsel. 'It is a common occurrence nowadays that a flight scheduled to leave at five in the morning leaves at five in the evening. The guidelines are never followed by the Indian Airlines authorities,' the bench observed.