Almost 15 years after Kandahar hijack, a bill to award death penalty to
hijackers and give the right to security forces to shoot down an
aircraft which may be used as a missile is likely to be brought to
Parliament soon.
Officials of the Civil Aviation Ministry are in parleys with their counterparts in the Law and Justice Ministry to take forward the much-delayed Anti-Hijacking (Amendment) Bill to amend the 1982 Act which was cleared by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2010.
The legislation was then introduced in Rajya Sabha in August 2010 by then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and referred to the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture which submitted its report in October the same year.
The bill did not see the light of the day thereafter.
The discussions are veered around issues like incorporating the latest global anti-hijack laws and bring the Indian law in line with the Beijing Protocol of the UN body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), official sources said.
Read news in full 03/08/14 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
Officials of the Civil Aviation Ministry are in parleys with their counterparts in the Law and Justice Ministry to take forward the much-delayed Anti-Hijacking (Amendment) Bill to amend the 1982 Act which was cleared by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March 2010.
The legislation was then introduced in Rajya Sabha in August 2010 by then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and referred to the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture which submitted its report in October the same year.
The bill did not see the light of the day thereafter.
The discussions are veered around issues like incorporating the latest global anti-hijack laws and bring the Indian law in line with the Beijing Protocol of the UN body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), official sources said.
Read news in full 03/08/14 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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