The Supreme Court on Friday told the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Pilot-in-Command of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad in June, killing 260 people, that “nobody in the country believes it was the pilot’s fault.”

A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi made the remark while hearing a plea filed by 91-year-old Pushkar Sabharwal, who has sought an independent and technically sound probe into the crash, monitored by a retired Supreme Court judge.

'YOU SHOULD NOT CARRY THIS BURDEN'

Expressing sympathy, the Bench assured the petitioner that his son was not being blamed for the tragedy.

“It’s extremely unfortunate that this crash took place, but you (the father) should not carry this burden that your son is being blamed. Nobody can bla

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