The Supreme Court has asked the Ministry of Civil Aviation to file its response to a plea challenging the Centre notification, which fixes different compensation amounts for international and domestic fliers.

At present compensation is 7.5 lakhs rupees in case of a domestic air passenger's death against 75 lakhs rupees for international fliers.

A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra issued notice to the Ministry on a plea challenging a 1973 notification of the Union government, which fixes airliners' liability in respect of passengers, baggage and cargo in different eventualities.

The petition was filed by Bihar native Rajesh Kumar whose son had died in an air ambulance crash last May at Faridabad in Haryana, along with all others including the flight crew members.