NCP-SP chief Supriya Sule on Friday demanded a time-bound probe into the aircraft crash that killed former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and criticised the state authorities for not submitting an FIR within the matter.

Pawar and 4 different individuals on board a chartered plane have been killed after it crashed barely 200 metres from the sting of a tabletop runway at Baramati airport in Maharashtra on January 28.

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Mentioning the crash in the course of the Query Hour within the Lok Sabha, Sule stated that if a former deputy chief minister doesn’t get justice, then what about others?

On Tuesday, Rohit Pawar, Ajit Pawar’s nephew, stated that as Maharashtra police didn’t register an FIR for alleged negligence on his criticism in reference to the crash, he filed a zero FIR in Bengaluru.

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In opposition to this backdrop, Sule stated that there must be a time-bound probe into the crash and criticised the Maharashtra authorities for not submitting the FIR.

In the meantime, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday stated a ‘zero FIR’ registered in Bengaluru over the aircraft crash was a “strategic try” to malign the state’s picture.

The Plane Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), in its preliminary report launched on February 28, stated visibility on the time of the crash was beneath the required stage.

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It had additionally flagged about fading marks on the runway and presence of unfastened gravel on the runway floor on the airport, because it really useful the regulator DGCA to make sure that stakeholders’ keep security requirements at uncontrolled airfields.

Fadnavis, on Wednesday, additionally stated that the state authorities has requested the Centre to contain the CBI within the probe. Whereas the state CID is at present investigating the Unintended Demise Report, the ultimate report of the AAIB will decide whether or not the case must be transformed right into a felony FIR, he had stated.