Friday, April 08, 2016

Grinder Muivah had been discharged after hijack charges

Aizawl:  Grinder Muivah, the nephew of NSCN (I-M) General Secretary Th. Muivah, who died of stroke in Delhi yesterday, was an important go-between in the talks between the Centre and the NSCN (I-M).
Grinder Muivah, who had been arrested in 2000 in Kolkata on the charge that he attempted hijacking and Indian Airlines aircraft operating between Aizawl and Kolkata, was later found not guilty and discharged by a court.
Grinder Muivah had returned from Bangkok and put in custody at the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata on March seven, 2000 after his alleged accomplice Ranju Rangan, posing as Director of the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation was arrested at the lone Lengpui Airport near Aizawl about a fortnight before Muivahs arrest in Kolkata in 2000.
Police had then alleged that the duo was planning to hijack an aircraft to secure the release of the NSCN (I-M) leader, then languishing in a Bangkok jail, a state official said today quoting records.
07/04/16 PTI/India Today
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