On 30th January 1971 Indian passenger airline name the Ganga was Hijacked during the flight Srinagar to Jammu to buy the Kashmiri separatist belonging to National liberation front extremist name Hashim Qureshi.
Great game played by Indian intelligence to stop air movement of pakistani aviation towards east Pakistan, present Bangladesh. Before indo pak war in 1971. Grounded useless plane was used and hijackers were Indian agents.
Ganga was one of the oldest aircraft in the Indian Airlines fleet and was already withdrawn from service but was re-inducted days before the hijacking.
India retaliated to the hijacking and subsequent burning by banning overflights of Pakistani aircraft over Indian territory. The ban, occurring in the run-up to the December 1971 war between the countries, had a significant impact on troop movement into the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Pakistan reacted by charging the hijackers and other NLF militants with conspiracy. The crackdown severely weakened the militant organisation.
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Sources:
https://defenceupdate.in/the-ganga-hijack-drama-how-raw-fooled-pakistan/
https://oracleopinions.com/2018/12/11/hijacking-ganga-and-the-case-of-hashim-qureshi/