Goa, Oct. 16 -- The 91-year-old father of the Air India pilot-in-command in the Ahmedabad crash of June has approached the Supreme Court, seeking an independent judicial investigation into the fatal incident.

Pushkaraj Sabharwal, father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, filed a petition requesting the constitution of a court-monitored committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, with independent aviation and technical experts as members. The aim is to ensure a transparent, unbiased, and technically thorough investigation into the crash of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which claimed 260 lives on June 12 while taking off from Ahmedabad.

The plea, filed jointly with the Federation of Indian Pilots, argued that the current investi...