Thursday, 13 September 2012

India Police arrests suspect in 1999 Kandahar hijacking

NEW DELHI: Police in Indian Kashmir have arrested a militant suspected of involvement in the 1999 hijacking of an Indian passenger plane that was flown to Afghanistan, a government spokesman told AFP Thursday.

Mehrajuddin Dand, alias Javed was arrested by police in Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday morning, ending a near 13-year-old pursuit of the militants behind the high-profile hijacking.

The New Delhi-bound Indian Airlines aircraft, flight IC-814, with 157 people on board was

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