New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said that no blame could be attributed to the pilot of the Air India flight to London, which crashed in Ahmedabad in June this year, claiming 260 lives, by saying, “whatever is the cause of the tragedy, the pilot is not the cause”.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by Pushkar Raj Sabharwal, the father of Commander Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots of the ill-fated flight, seeking a judicially monitored committee, headed by a former judge of the apex court, to conduct a probe into the crash.

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayana, representing the petitioners, contended that his clients seek an impartial investigation as the current investigation being conducted by the AAIB was not independent.

He asked

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