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Businessman Gets Life Term for Hijack Hoax on Jet Airways Plane

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Is all really fair in love and war? Not for Mumbai-based businessman and jeweller Birju Kishore Salla, who had, in October 2017, planted a fake note to trigger a bomb scare on a Jet Airways flight only to have his girlfriend stay in his city.

Salla, as a result of this, was sentenced to life imprisonment and levied a hefty fine of Rs 5 crore by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, 11 June.

On 30 October 2017, Salla planted a note in the washroom of the Delhi-bound Jet Airways Flight 9W339, which claimed that there were hijackers and a bomb aboard. The note prompted the pilot to make an emergency landing in Ahmedabad after the crew informed him of the note’s contents.