IC 814 Row: IB Ministry Summons Netflix India’s Head of Content Over Hijackers’ Names

Vijay Verma’s thriller series IC814 Kandahar Hijack is now readily on hand on the OTT full-dimension Netflix. The series centers round the hijacking of Indian Airways Flight IC 814. Alternatively, after its liberate, the series grew to be embroiled in a first-rate controversy, major to the summoning of Netflix India’s content fabric head by the federal govt. The summon accompanied accusations from heaps of social media purchasers who criticised the makers for allegedly changing the names of the hijackers to “Bhola” and “Shankar.”

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The Ministry of Statistics and Broadcasting has summoned Monika Shergill, the content fabric chief of Netflix India, to up on Tuesday, September 2, to give a proof massive to the allegedly controversial motives of the cyber net series. The series, directed by Anubhav Sinha, is motivated by the e booklet Flight Into Fear: The Captain’s Story by Devi Sharan, the captain of the flight, and journalist Srinjoy Chowdhury.

The series delves into the hijacking of Indian Airways Flight 814 on December 24, 1999. The flight, carrying a entire of 191 passengers, took off from Kathmandu, Nepal, and was headed for Delhi. The series capabilities 5 hijackers who straight took manipulate of the airplane. The flight made quite a couple of stops, inclusive of in Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai, in past times than at best landing in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

On the time, the Indian govt, led by Extreme Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was pressured to liberate quite a couple of dreaded terrorists, inclusive of Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, from Indian prisons. The Union Ministry also released the names of the hijackers in 2000: Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, and Shakir.

“To the passengers of the hijacked airplane, these hijackers received here to be customary respectively as (1) Chief, (2) Clinical clinical legitimate, (Three) Burger, (4) Bhola, and (5) Shankar, the names wherein the hijackers perpetually addressed one yet one other,” the Dwelling Ministry’s announcement says.