A local court of Patiala on Thursday recorded statements of four witnesses in a case relating to the hijack of Indian Airlines airbus to Kandahar while on a flight from Kathmandu to New Delhi in 1999. The statements of Nadeem, a guest house owner, Mohd Sajid, a waiter at a hotel, P S Wahal, CID Inspector and Hyder Ali were recorded in camera in the court of designated Judge S N Aggarwal at Patiala. The cross-examination could not take place as Defence Counsels Brijinder Singh Sodhi and H V Rai did not attend the proceedings after the court rejected their applications for a 'fair trial'.