Father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was the Pilot-in-Command of the Air India pilot in a June crash in Ahmedabad that killed 241 people, has approached the Supreme Court seeking a retired judge-monitored fair, transparent, and technically sound probe into the crash of Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.

Pushkaraj Sabharwal, aged 91, alongside the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), filed a petition urging the court to constitute a judicially monitored inquiry committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge and comprising independent aviation experts.

The plea said the probe presently being undertaken by the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and the preliminary report dated June 15 submitted pursuant to that investigat

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