The father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the pilot-in-command who was among the 275 persons who died in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored judicial inquiry into the incident, Bar and Bench reported on Thursday.

The writ petition was jointly filed by 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal and the Federation of Indian Pilots on October 10.

It seeks the setting up of an independent investigative committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge , with aviation and technical experts as members, PTI reported.

The petitioners contend that the investigation being conducted by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau and the head of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation is “defective, biased, and technically unsound”,

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