New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and the Uttarakhand government on a petition highlighting repeated helicopter crashes in the Char Dham Yatra region.

A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta issued notices after hearing submissions from Advocate Shubham Awasthi, who along with other lawyers, urged the court to address systemic lapses in helicopter operations in mountainous terrain. The court has listed the matter for hearing in four weeks.

The plea comes in the wake of multiple incidents this year, the most serious being on June 15, when a helicopter carrying pilgrims from Kedarnath shrine crashed into the forests of Gaurikund amid poor visibility. All seven on........

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