{"id":278288,"date":"2019-06-12T07:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=278288"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T07:26:56","slug":"businessman-gets-life-in-jail-for-hijack-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/businessman-gets-life-in-jail-for-hijack-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman gets life in jail for hijack hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s toilet.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}