CBI slaps cheating charges on IC405 hijacker

NEW DELHI: A dreaded pro-khalistan terrorist, who had hijacked the Srinagar-new Delhi Indian Airlines flight in 1984 and taken it to Lahore, has now been charged by the CBI with cheating and forgery in acquiring an Afghan passport under assumed identity to migrate to Canada. In a chargesheet filed here, the agency has accused Parminder Singh Saini alias Harfan Maula of allegedly acquiring a fake Afghan passport in the name of Balbir Singh while in Pakistan in 1995.