Indian man jailed for life for fake plane hijack

Thursday, 13 June 2019 16:00

An Indian court has imprisoned a man for life for planting a fake hijacking letter in the toilet of a Jet Airways flight.

Businessman Birju Salla said he had hoped the air carrier would close its Delhi operations and his girlfriend - a Jet Airways air stewardess - would have to move to live with him in Mumbai.

He was also fined 50 million rupees ($720,725; £650,877).

Salla is the first person to be tried under India's new anti-hijacking laws, which carries a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, and a death sentence at its most severe.

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