New Delhi: Two senior police officers left for Chile on Tuesday afternoon to verify the identity of the arrested Pakistani citizen, even as authorities were yet to receive any further confirmation if the detained man was a key conspirator of the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines aircraft IC814.
Chilean law enforcement agencies alerted Interpol about the arrest of a Pakistani citizen, who they suspect is Abdul Rauf, brother-in-law of Maulana Masood Azhar, who was among the three terrorists released in exchange for the passengers of IC814.
End of the hijack on December 31, 1999 saw New Delhi giving into the demands of hijackers, releasing Azhar, who later founded militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed, Saeed Omar Sheikh, a key suspect in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and Mushtaq Zargar, a key operator behind Kashmiri militancy till date.
Sources in the security establishment said they were yet to get a confirmation if the suspect arrested in Chile is Rauf, who was a key conspirator of the 1999 hijack according to Indian investigators.
13/04/11 Neeraj Chauhan/Times of India
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