New Delhi, June 10 -- Days ahead of the first anniversary of the Air India-171 plane crash in Ahmedabad, Air India has written a letter to Radhika Rupani, the daughter of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who was among the 260 victims of the disaster. The airline, in its letter, told Rupani that there is no pressure on the kin of the victims to accept the company's full and final compensation amount within a particular time frame.

"Our offer of final compensation did not set out any timetable for acceptance. Families are entirely free to wait until the investigation report has been released, as some have chosen to do," the airline wrote to Rupani, as per NDTV, which has accessed the letter.

Radhika Rupani had earlier written t...