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CBI in Afghanistan to probe 1999 hijacking of IA plane
New Delhi, Oct 14: In a bid to prove Pakistani hand in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane in 1999, a CBI team has gone to Afghanistan to find out whether it could get hold of some documents or witnesses of the erstwhile Taliban regime, presently under the custody of allied forces.
New Delhi, Oct 14: In a bid to prove Pakistani
hand in the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane in 1999, a CBI
team has gone to Afghanistan to find out whether it could get
hold of some documents or witnesses of the erstwhile Taliban
regime, presently under the custody of allied forces.
Informed sources said the CBI team would also attempt to
reach Kandahar where it would like to see the records of
the Air Traffic Control (ATC) which had been the centre of
world attention during the hijacking of the Indian Airlines
IC-814 on December 24 on its way to Delhi from Kathmandu.
CBI officials here were tight-lipped over the entire issue and were expressing ignorance about any such visit.
The sources, however, said that the team would be holding meetings with some of the allied force officials and the sleuths of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, who had stumbled upon some of the documentary evidence during its war against terror.
The CBI, which had been planning a high-profile visit for long, was also interested in finding out the incoming calls record at ATC Kandahar as the agency suspects that all the direction to the hijackers and their mentors were coming from Pakistan.
It may be mentioned that FBI had also registered a case in the hijacking episode and questioned some of the passengers and the accused arrested by the CBI.
Bureau Report
CBI officials here were tight-lipped over the entire issue and were expressing ignorance about any such visit.
The sources, however, said that the team would be holding meetings with some of the allied force officials and the sleuths of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, who had stumbled upon some of the documentary evidence during its war against terror.
The CBI, which had been planning a high-profile visit for long, was also interested in finding out the incoming calls record at ATC Kandahar as the agency suspects that all the direction to the hijackers and their mentors were coming from Pakistan.
It may be mentioned that FBI had also registered a case in the hijacking episode and questioned some of the passengers and the accused arrested by the CBI.
Bureau Report