The court said that there had been an “alarming rise” in dog bite incidents in the country.

The court said that the local authorities will be responsible for removing stray dogs from such areas and placing them in shelters after vaccinating and sterilising them.

The court said that no official report had held the cockpit crew responsible and said it was willing to record this formally.

The bench was hearing a petition filed by the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the pilot-in-command, and the Federation of Indian Pilots, who sought a court-monitored judicial inquiry into the crash. The petitioners argued that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s preliminary findings were “biased and incomplete”.

The court reiterated that the tragedy was “extremely unfortunate” but verbally s

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