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The claim

A Mumbai businessman has been sentenced to life imprisonment and fined Rs. 5 crore by a special NIA court for threatening to hijack a Jet Airways plane.

Rating

MISLEADING

Reviewed by FACTLY ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

Original review summary

The review says Birju Kishor Salla was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined ₹5 crore by the NIA Court in June 2019 over the Jet Airways hijacking case. But on 08 August 2023, the Gujarat High Court acquitted him and set aside that conviction, making the claim misleading as a current account of the case.[S1]

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  1. [S1] FACTLY original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026