<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL for a probe into Mirage Aircraft crash in Bengaluru on February 1.<br /><br />"Do you know Mirage 2000 is of which generation? It is bound to crash," a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked petitioner-advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava.<br /><br />On lawyer's failure to answer the specific query, the court said others are using 6th generation Mirage Aircraft while ours is of 3 or 3.5th generation.<br /><br />"How can we order a judicial inquiry into it," the bench added.<br /><br />On lawyer's insistence to examine the issue, the bench said, "We are not imposing the cost as the petitioner is advocate."<br /><br />Within a week of the crash, the lawyer approached the court seeking a direction to set up a monitoring committee of a retired judge and experts to conduct a thorough probe into the unfortunate incident and to suggest measures for avoiding such mishaps in future.<br /><br />Advocate Srivastava said the petition was filed in the wake of a “sad and unfortunate incident” of the crash of a Mirage Aircraft of Indian Air Force, in which two bright and ace pilots, namely, Squadron Leader Sameer Abrol and Squadron Leader Siddharth Negi lost their lives.<br /><br /> <br />“In view of the alarmingly increase in a number of crashes of various aircrafts and helicopters belonging to the Indian Armed Forces in the recent times, leading to loss of precious lives of a number of air warriors, the petitioner has preferred the instant PIL,” he said.</p>.<p>The issue involved is a sheer violation of fundamental rights of the victims of Indian Air Force jet crash, as enshrined within Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution, amongst others, he contended.<br /><br />Srivastava sought a direction to fix the accountabilities of the erring government officials and other persons leading to such incidents of aircraft crash of Indian Armed Forces.</p>.<p>He contended appropriate steps must be taken to ensure that such unfortunate incidents do not recur in future.</p>.<p>The petitioner cited news reports stating that the Armed Forces have lost over 35 Aircrafts and Helicopters in crashes, which claimed over 45 lives in 2015-16 alone. “If figures since 2011 are considered, then the IAF, Army and Navy have recorded accidents of over 75 Aircrafts and Helicopters, which have killed over 80 people,” he pointed out.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL for a probe into Mirage Aircraft crash in Bengaluru on February 1.<br /><br />"Do you know Mirage 2000 is of which generation? It is bound to crash," a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked petitioner-advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava.<br /><br />On lawyer's failure to answer the specific query, the court said others are using 6th generation Mirage Aircraft while ours is of 3 or 3.5th generation.<br /><br />"How can we order a judicial inquiry into it," the bench added.<br /><br />On lawyer's insistence to examine the issue, the bench said, "We are not imposing the cost as the petitioner is advocate."<br /><br />Within a week of the crash, the lawyer approached the court seeking a direction to set up a monitoring committee of a retired judge and experts to conduct a thorough probe into the unfortunate incident and to suggest measures for avoiding such mishaps in future.<br /><br />Advocate Srivastava said the petition was filed in the wake of a “sad and unfortunate incident” of the crash of a Mirage Aircraft of Indian Air Force, in which two bright and ace pilots, namely, Squadron Leader Sameer Abrol and Squadron Leader Siddharth Negi lost their lives.<br /><br /> <br />“In view of the alarmingly increase in a number of crashes of various aircrafts and helicopters belonging to the Indian Armed Forces in the recent times, leading to loss of precious lives of a number of air warriors, the petitioner has preferred the instant PIL,” he said.</p>.<p>The issue involved is a sheer violation of fundamental rights of the victims of Indian Air Force jet crash, as enshrined within Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution, amongst others, he contended.<br /><br />Srivastava sought a direction to fix the accountabilities of the erring government officials and other persons leading to such incidents of aircraft crash of Indian Armed Forces.</p>.<p>He contended appropriate steps must be taken to ensure that such unfortunate incidents do not recur in future.</p>.<p>The petitioner cited news reports stating that the Armed Forces have lost over 35 Aircrafts and Helicopters in crashes, which claimed over 45 lives in 2015-16 alone. “If figures since 2011 are considered, then the IAF, Army and Navy have recorded accidents of over 75 Aircrafts and Helicopters, which have killed over 80 people,” he pointed out.</p>
