Lok Sabha passed the Anti-Hijacking Bill 2016 on Monday.
Lok Sabha on Monday remembered Neerja Bhanot, a Pan Am air hostess who died saving passengers on a hijacked flight in 1986, during a discussion on the Anti-Hijacking Bill 2016.
Participating in the debate over the bill, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said she gave her life while securing the passengers. Saugata Roy (TMC) said she was a courageous lady and a film was also made on her recently.
Supporting the bill, B N Goud (TRS) said that proper mechanism should in place for compensating the victims.
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Anti Hijacking Bill, which seeks to deal with offences related to hijacking of aircraft. The bill, which provides for death penalty even if ground handling staff and airport personnel are killed during such acts, was passed in the Rajya Sabha on May 4.
The bill defines hijacking as seizing control of an aircraft in service, unlawfully and intentionally, by technological means or by exercising force, coercion or any other form of intimidation. The bill covers several acts within the definition of hijacking, which includes attempt and abetment of hijacking, making a credible threat to commit hijacking and organising or directing others to commit hijacking.
Remembering Bhanot, he said Pan Am was a US-based company and they had not provided any compensation to Indian crew members. Bhanot, the senior-most flight attendant on board a Pan Am Mumbai-New York flight, was shot dead by terrorists who had hijacked the flight in Karachi on September 5, 1986, during her courageous bid to save the lives of passengers.
She became the youngest recipient of India's highest peacetime military award for bravery, the Ashok Chakra.
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