Father of Indian killed by hijackers seeks justice

Gurgaon: The father of an Indian killed by terrorists who hijacked an Indian plane to Afghanistan on this day in 1999 wants the killers to hang -- and wonders why it has not happened so far. "We want the hijackers to be prosecuted in India and hanged under Indian law," said an emotive C.P. Katyal, who lives with his wife here in Haryana. And Katyal feels that the Indian political class has failed him -- and similar victims of terror attacks. His son Rupin Katyal was one of the passengers of the Indian Airlines flight 814 which terrorists linked to Pakistan hijacked Dec 24, 1999 after it had taken off from Kathmandu.
Rupin Katyal and his wife Rachna, who married only earlier that month, were returning from their honeymoon when the Pakistan-based militant group Harkat ul-Mujahideen took over the aircraft with 176 people on board.
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