When Farooq shouted at RAW Chief during Kandahar hijack

July 02, 2015 22:19

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah shouted at the then RAW Chief A S Dulat for "hours together" during their meeting after a decision was taken to release three hardcore militants in exchange for the freedom of the passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, it was recalled today.

Dulat, the former head of Research and Analysis Wing, also said that Farooq felt the decision by the Union Government was a "mistake" and he had stormed off their meeting to call on Governor Girish Chander Saxena with an intention to resign.

When the hijacking took place on December 24, the Crisis Management Group "goofed up" the entire case by not immobilising the plane when it had landed in Amritsar, "No one was willing to take a decision and in that confusion no instructions were passed on to Punjab Police which had moved in its personnel.

They carried on debating and the plane flew off," Dulat said in an interview to Karan Thapar on his India Today TV programme.

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