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 NIA had taken up the case and a probe revealed that Salla was having an affair with a Jet Airways employee. “This was the first case registered under the Anti-Hijacking Act of 2016 by the NIA,” the official said.

Source: The Telegraph June 12, 2019 00:11 UTC