The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the central government and Air India on a petition seeking a minimum compensation of Rs.75 lakh for the immediate family members of Mohammed Rafi who was one of the 158 passengers killed in the May 2010 air crash in Mangalore.

An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Dipak Misra issued the notice after senior counsel Harish Salve appearing for petitioner S. Abdul Salam and others told the court that under the Montreal Convention, the national carrier was obliged to pay a minimum compensation of 100,000 SDRs (special drawing rights) to the kith and kin of the passengers who died in the crash.