The father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal — the pilot who died in the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad — and the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) have moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the accident in which 265 people, including both pilots and crew members, died.

Filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by Pushkaraj Sabharwal and the FIP, the petition seeks a court-monitored committee comprising a retired judge of the Supreme Court and independent aviation and technical experts to conduct a fair, transparent and technically robust probe into the crash.

It urged the top court to direct that all investigations carried out so far, including the preliminary report dated July 12, be treated as closed and all records, data and evidence be transfe

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