New Delhi: Days before the hijacking of Indian Airlines' IC-814 flight, a RAW officer in Kathmandu had generated an input that the flight could be hijacked but his superior did not believe him and allegedly failed to send it to the RAW headquarters. Ironically, the day IC-814 was hijacked, this superior official was on board the flight.
This along with several other sensational claims, including failure of timely action by Narsimha Rao government to secure release of kidnapped foreign tourists in J&K in 1995, RAW operations to destroy Karachi harbour during 1971 war and vice president Hamid Ansari's alleged inability to protect RAW agents during his tenure as ambassador in Iran, are part of a new book written by former RAW officer RK Yadav.
In the book titled "Mission R&AW", Yadav, who hit headlines in 1980 for floating a RAW employees' union and then being suspended for it, claims that prior to the hijacking of IC-814 from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, a junior RAW operative, UV Singh, informed his counsellor, a senior officer of RAW at the Indian Embassy, that there was apprehension about hijacking of the plane by Pakistani terrorists.
06/04/14 Deeptiman Tiwary/Times of India
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This along with several other sensational claims, including failure of timely action by Narsimha Rao government to secure release of kidnapped foreign tourists in J&K in 1995, RAW operations to destroy Karachi harbour during 1971 war and vice president Hamid Ansari's alleged inability to protect RAW agents during his tenure as ambassador in Iran, are part of a new book written by former RAW officer RK Yadav.
In the book titled "Mission R&AW", Yadav, who hit headlines in 1980 for floating a RAW employees' union and then being suspended for it, claims that prior to the hijacking of IC-814 from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, a junior RAW operative, UV Singh, informed his counsellor, a senior officer of RAW at the Indian Embassy, that there was apprehension about hijacking of the plane by Pakistani terrorists.
06/04/14 Deeptiman Tiwary/Times of India
