Was chargesheet filed in ’81 IA hijack case?

New Delhi: The Sessions court has asked Delhi Commissioner of Police KK Paul to inform whether any chargesheet was ever filed in the 1981 case wherein an Indian Airlines plane was hijacked to Pakistan.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamini Lau passed the order on an application filed by Tejinder Pal Singh, one of the accused in the case who was convicted and sentenced by a Lahore court for the offence. Tejinder and four other Sikh militants were convicted for hijacking the IA Flight 423 to Lahore from Delhi on August 29, 1981. All five served a jail term in Pakistan. After his return in 1987, Tejinder filed an application seeking discharge from the case registered here, on the ground that he had already served sentence for the offence.
The court then asked for the main case file, but the Palam police failed to make it available. The Ministry of Home Affairs also could not trace the documents whether any prosecution sanction had ever been taken from the government against the accused. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, IGI Airport, too, failed to assist the court despite repeated notices.
09/11/06 Delhi Newsline

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