Pushkaraj Sabharwal, father of deceased Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, and the Federation of Indian Pilots have moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored inquiry headed by a former Supreme Court judge into the on June 12 crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people.

On September 22, the Supreme Court said certain aspects of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) preliminary report on the crash indicated lapses on the part of pilots, and had issued notices to the Centre and the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on another plea seeking an independent, fair and expeditious probe.

Pushkaraj Sabharwal, 91, has sought a “fair, transparent and technically robust” investigation into the tragic incident.

“An incomplete and prejudiced inquiry, withou

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