The Indian Airlines plane IC 814, which was hijacked in 1999, is once again in the headlines. Due to the web series released recently on Netflix, its discussion has once again gained momentum. This series has again fueled the debate on many issues, including the efforts of the government and various agencies to handle the situation. While talking to India Today, Pooja Kataria has shared shocking information. She has told how the terrorists behaved in the plane.
In an interview to India Today, Pooja said that the hijacker of the plane tried to convince her to convert to Islam. Let us tell you that the day the plane was hijacked was Pooja Kataria’s birthday. Pooja still has many things related to this incident with her, including a shawl on which the terrorists have written some good things for her and her husband.
Pooja told that there was a doctor among the terrorists who used to talk nice things in the plane. He used to do this to make people accept Islam. Some of us had even accepted their words, but when they started saying that ‘Your government is not listening to us. We will kill you’, then people got scared.
Pooja said that after the hijacking, panic had spread in the plane and a passenger had a heart attack. In such a situation, the terrorists were behaving well to normalize the situation. On the Hindu names of the terrorists, Pooja said that these were their own names, which they were using as code names to call each other in the plane. Pooja still has some things with her, which were related to that journey.
Pooja told that the terrorist mentioned Giriba of Afghanistan in the plane and asked the passengers to donate food. All the passengers together collected about 85 thousand rupees on his request. We gave it to Afghanistan.