The Supreme Court on Friday comforted 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal, father of the late Air India pilot Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, saying that his son should not carry any blame for the devastating plane crash in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives earlier this year.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi told the grieving father, “You should not carry burden on yourself. The pilot is not to be blamed for the plane crash. It was an accident. There is no insinuation against him even in the preliminary report.”

The court issued notice to the Union government and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Sabharwal’s plea seeking a court-monitored, independent inquiry into the incident.

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, representing Sabharwal, pointed out that a re

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