India, Nov. 13 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's inquiry into the case is not to assign blame to anyone while issuing a notice to the Centre in the Air India plane crash case. The top court sought the Centre's response to the petition filed by the father of Captain Sumit Sabharwal, one of the pilots who died in the tragedy, who is asking for an independent court-monitored inquiry into the crash.

The Central government told the SC that the investigation into the Ahmedabad crash that killed over 240 people is being carried out in line with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards, which set the statutory framework for air crash investigations.

The SC has also directed...