SC refuses bail plea of plane "hijacker"

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain the bail plea of a chartered accountant who had created a mid-air panic by claiming to have hijacked a Goa-Delhi Indigo flight and threatened to attack the crew and passengers with infected needles.
A bench of Justices P Sathasivam and H L Dattu, while allowing the accused Jitender Kumar Mohla to withdraw his bail application, however, said any observation made by the Delhi High Court against the accused shall not affect the merits of the case in the pending trial.
The apex court, however, found no merit in the plea of Mohla that there was no prima facie material to substantiate the charge that he was guilty of hijacking the aircraft and hence entitled to bail.
Mohla, a chartered accountant by profession, had on February 1, 2009, while on a flight from Goa to Delhi, allegedly went to the cockpit and created a panic that he has hijacked the plane.
17/12/09 Zee News

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