New Delhi: Eight months after it was first unveiled, the national ‘no-fly list’ finally has a name. A Mumbai-based jeweller who created a hijack scare onboard a Jet Airways flight has been grounded by the DGCA. Birju Kishore Salla, 37, was arrested by the Crime Branch moments after the flight made an emergency landing at the Ahmedabad airport en route to New Delhi in October last year.
“Mr Salla, the guy who had created the hijack scare in a Jet Airways flight last year, is the first person to be put on the no-fly list,” a senior DGCA official said confirming the development, reported news agency PTI.
The Jet Airways flight made the emergency landing after the pilot was alerted by the cabin crew about a note found in the plane’s washroom. The note warned of a hijack bid and about a bomb in the cargo bay of the plane. Salla, a multi-millionaire jeweller from Mumbai, had confessed to planting the note, hoping that his girlfriend working in the Jet Airways Delhi office would return to Mumbai after the carrier halts its operations.
According to the crime branch, the note asked the plane to be flown straight to POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). It ended with the words, “Allah is Great”. The reference to POK made investigators suspicious because Pakistan-based terrorists call the area ‘Azad Kashmir’.
20/05/18 Indian Express
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“Mr Salla, the guy who had created the hijack scare in a Jet Airways flight last year, is the first person to be put on the no-fly list,” a senior DGCA official said confirming the development, reported news agency PTI.
The Jet Airways flight made the emergency landing after the pilot was alerted by the cabin crew about a note found in the plane’s washroom. The note warned of a hijack bid and about a bomb in the cargo bay of the plane. Salla, a multi-millionaire jeweller from Mumbai, had confessed to planting the note, hoping that his girlfriend working in the Jet Airways Delhi office would return to Mumbai after the carrier halts its operations.
According to the crime branch, the note asked the plane to be flown straight to POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). It ended with the words, “Allah is Great”. The reference to POK made investigators suspicious because Pakistan-based terrorists call the area ‘Azad Kashmir’.
20/05/18 Indian Express
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