{"id":362544,"date":"2020-07-13T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362544"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:17:27","slug":"court-acquits-19-accused-in-case-linked-to-kandahar-hijack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/court-acquits-19-accused-in-case-linked-to-kandahar-hijack\/","title":{"rendered":"Court acquits 19 accused in case linked to Kandahar hijack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SESSIONS court in Mumbai Thursday upheld a lower court\u2019s order acquitting Abdul Latif Adam Momin along with 18 others, including passport office employees, in a case linked to the 1999 Kandahar hijacking. The accused were booked on charges of forging documents to help obtain fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Momin, a Mumbai resident, is currently serving life imprisonment in a jail in Punjab for his role in the hijacking, including obtaining passports for the hijackers. The Mumbai Police had claimed that it was through Momin that the other accused had helped obtain a passport in the name of four wanted accused hijackers to enable their travel on the plane and its subsequent hijacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SESSIONS court in Mumbai Thursday upheld a lower court\u2019s order acquitting Abdul Latif Adam Momin along with 18 others, including passport office employees, in a case linked to the 1999 Kandahar hijacking. The accused were booked on charges of forging documents to help obtain fake passports for the hijackers of the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999. Momin, a Mumbai resident, is currently serving life imprisonment in a jail in Punjab for his role in the hijacking, including obtaining passports for the hijackers. The Mumbai Police had claimed that it was through Momin that the other accused had [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362544","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=362544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}