Kandhar hijacking: Special Court summons Farooq and Khurana as witnesses

Patiala: The former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah and of Delhi Madan Lal Khurana along with official of the Pakistani consulate were Friday summoned by the special anti-hijacking court here to appear before the court as defense witnesses in the Kandhar hijacking case on September 15.
Inderjit Singh Walia special court judge has also issued summons to Kandhar aerodrome authority, Afghanistan, superintendent of Tihar Jail, inspector general of police of Jammu and Kashmir and commissioner of Delhi police.
Defense counsel for Yusuf Nepali and Dalip Kumar Bhujel, the prime accused of helping the hijackers of the India airline plane, H. V. Rai, had moved an application seeking summoning of these persons to the could to establish that the hijacking had been planned by the government of India.
Rai said that the summons had been issued under section 233 of the Cr.P.C. that permitted summoning of any body anywhere in the world.
08/09/06 Gagandeep Ahuja/PunjabNewsline.com

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