Kandahar hijack: passengers to get compensation

Nine years after Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked to Kandahar, the Delhi Consumer Commission has directed the Indian Airlines to pay Rs 1 lakh each to all the flight’s passengers at that time. The Commission also awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of Rupen Katyal, who was killed by the terrorists in the Delhi bound flight from Kathmandu.

“It is a fit case where every passenger, who was on board the ill-fated aircraft, is entitled to compensation under the Consumer Protection Act, as all the passengers had suffered the same injury and agony,” Commission president Justice J D Kapoor said.

The order has come on the plea of a couple, who were couple among the passengers. The had earlier sought compensation from the air lines for the “mental and physical trauma” undergone during the incident.

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