New Delhi, Jan 30 : Air India staff, residing in a sprawling - and largely deserted - compound in Delhi's Vasant Vihar, hope for relief from the Delhi High Court in wake of the Bombay High Court's recent order restraining the airline from deducting penal rent and damage charges from the salary of employees residing in AI staff quarters in Mumbai's Santacruz.

The employees and the airline have been at loggerheads over vacating the quarters since last year, and the pleas of 116 petitioners and residents will be heard by Delhi High Court on Tuesday.

"I had received a notice on December 29, 2022 regarding eviction from the residential colony and deduction of salary. Just two days after the notice, Rs 1,20,000 was cut from December salary leaving me with not enough money even to run my house," the employee said.