IC 814: 10 yrs on victim speaks about husband's killing

New Delhi: Ten years ago on this day the IC 814 hijacking took place. An Indian Airlines plane with 174 passengers and 11 crew members onboard was taken over by terrorists and a passenger was brutally killed.
Rupin Katyal, a 27-year-old electronic engineer from Chandigarh and his wife Rachna, had gone to Nepal to spend their honeymoon there. On their way back in the flight Rupin was stabbed to death by the hijackers.
His wife Rachna remained a hostage till the end of the crisis not aware that her husband had been killed. Speaking out for the first time in a television interview with CNN-IBN, she said, “I want to remember the good time. I had no idea that he was stabbed. I don’t know why it happened to me.”
A decade after the stunning hijack, Nepal, whose economy was devastated by the incident, is ready to narrate its own version of the disaster.
From early 2010, Nepali film director Dayaram Dahal is planning to shoot the first Nepali film on the mid-sky drama.
24/12/09 CNN-IBN

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