A National Investigation Agency court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday jailed a Mumbai-based businessman for life and fined him Rs 5 crore for a mid-flight hijack hoax in October 2017 in the first conviction under the amended anti-hijack law.
Businessman Birju Kishor Salla was accused of triggering a mid-flight scare on a Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight (No. 9W339) from Mumbai by leaving a hijack threat note written in English and Urdu in the aircraft’s toilet.
The note had asked the plane to be flown to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. It was diverted to Ahmedabad where it made an emergency landing. All the 116 passengers were made to disembark at Ahmedabad airport and screened.
