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PATIALA:- A designated court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment three accused for hijacking an Indian Airlines plane carrying 179 passengers and 11 crew members to Kandahar in Afghanistan in December 1999.
Judge Inderjit Singh Walia pronounced the verdict under various Sections of the IPC and anti-hijacking law on Abdul Latif, Bhupal Man Damai alias Yusuf Nepali and Dalip Kumar Bhujail.
CBI had demanded death sentence for Latif. Nepali and Bhujail have also been found guilty under the Arms Act for which they’ve been given three years’ jail. All the sentences are to run concurrently.
The plane, on way from Kathmandu to Delhi, was hijacked on December 24, 1999, and taken first to Lahore, Pakistan, and from there to Amritsar, and finally to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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Judge Inderjit Singh Walia pronounced the verdict under various Sections of the IPC and anti-hijacking law on Abdul Latif, Bhupal Man Damai alias Yusuf Nepali and Dalip Kumar Bhujail.
CBI had demanded death sentence for Latif. Nepali and Bhujail have also been found guilty under the Arms Act for which they’ve been given three years’ jail. All the sentences are to run concurrently.
The plane, on way from Kathmandu to Delhi, was hijacked on December 24, 1999, and taken first to Lahore, Pakistan, and from there to Amritsar, and finally to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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