New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court issued a notice on Friday to the Centre and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in response to the Air India pilot's father's plea for a judicial inquiry into the Ahmedabad plane crash.

The pilot is not to be blamed, you should not carry the burden on yourself, the top court told the 91-year-old father of the pilot killed, along with 250 people, in a plane crash on 12 June, news agency PTI reported.

The Court order came in response to a petition by Pushkaraj Sabharwal, whose son, Sumeet Sabharwal, served as the pilot-in-command of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has also filed a petition with the same demand.

A bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya...