Supreme Court (File photo | PTI)
Supreme Court (File photo | PTI)

IC-814 Hijacking case: SC adjourns case till November, asks CBI to file counter reply 

The Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to New Delhi, with 179 passengers and 11 crew members on board, was hijacked on December 24, 1999.

The Supreme Court has adjourned the IC-814 Hijacking case till November.  The court also asked the CBI to file a counter-reply in the case.

The Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu to New Delhi, with 179 passengers and 11 crew members on board, was hijacked on December 24, 1999, and taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan by five hijackers, who are still absconding.

The hijackers had executed one passenger, Rupin Katyal, and finally negotiated the release of terrorists Masood Azhar Alvi, Syed Omar Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar from Indian jails on December 31, 1999, in exchange for the hostages.

In 2014, the apex court had issued notice on the pleas of Mr Momin and Punjab government against the High Court verdict. On February 25, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had dismissed CBI's petition seeking death penalty for Mr Momin. 

The High Court while upholding life sentence for Mr Momin, had acquitted two other convicts, Yusuf Nepali and Dilip Kumar Bhujel, of murder charges and conspiracy of hijacking the aircraft, after finding them guilty only under the Arms Act.

More details awaited.

(With inputs from PTI)

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