NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency(NIA) court handing out a life sentence to Jet Airways hijack scare case convict Birju Kumar Salla, a Mumbai-based businessman, came as no surprise.
Under the Anti-Hijacking Act of 2016, any person who makes a threat to commit a hijack or intentionally causes a person to receive a seemingly credible hijack threat is deemed to have committed the offence. And such person, the Act unequivocally states, must be punished with death where the hijack act results in death of a victim; and life imprisonment for the remainder of the convict’s life where no fatality is involved.
