'Right now, we have no relationship with Pakistan. And the relationship with China is not great.'
A POCSO court in North 24 Parganas district recently sentenced four persons to 20 years in jail and two others to 10 years in connection with the case of the woman who is now 22 years old.
Congress spokesperson and media cell in-charge Veerapa Moily accused Lal Kishenchand Advani of keeping former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the dark about the hijacking of IC-814 even though the news was conveyed to the then deputy prime minister incharge of the country's home ministry by the former director of Information Bureau Shyamal Dutta within minutes of the event taking place.
Giving details about the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in his book, the former deputy prime minister wrote: 'I was sitting in my office on a cold Friday afternoon on December 24,1999, when Shyamal Dutta, former director of Intelligence Bureau called me to convey the bad news. 'Sir, an Indian Airlines plane coming from Nepal has been hijacked'. I was stunned by what I heard.'
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