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New Delhi:A Netflix series based on the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 (IC-814)is facing heavy criticism over the names and depictions of the five terrorists who were involved in the eight-day-long ordeal...
The makers of the showIC 814: The Kandahar Hijackhave been accused on social media platforms, and also by BJP information cell chief Amit Malviya, of whitewashing the religion of the terrorists, through the use of their code names only Chief, Doctor, Burger, Bhola and Shankar...
As the controversy gained momentum, reports suggested that Netflix Indias content chief Monika Shergill was also summoned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting over the six-episode series...
Journalist Neelesh Misra, who wrote the book173 Hours in Captivityon the hijacking, posted on X that Chief was the brother of radical Islamist Maulana Masood Azhar, who was in an Indian jail at that time and whose release the five terrorists sought...
The plane was hijacked mid-air and then proceeded to land at Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai and finally Kandahar in Afghanistan, where the remaining passengers were set free in exchange for the release of three terrorists in Indian jails Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar...
