Kandahar hijack case hearing deferred

Patiala: A special court here on Wednesday adjourned till February 7 hearing in the case relating to the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar on December 14, 1999.
The designated Anti-Hijacking court also directed the Mumbai police commissioner to send the relevant records sought by defence counsel Abdul Latif on the next date of hearing.
The records from the office of the Commissioner of a Mumbai court pertain to the arrest of Abdul Latif and on which he was kept in custody and interrogated at various places.
A witness had earlier testified that the record were destroyed during the in Mumbai while photocopies of the records fro Delhi's Tihar Jail have been furnished in the case.
Defence counsel H V Rai claimed that names of two former chief ministers are included in the list of witnesses to be summoned.
The New Delhi-Kathmandu Indian Airlines airbus IC-814 was hijacked by terrorists and taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan on Christmas eve, 1999.
18/01/07 PTI/The Hindu

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