A special NIA court on Tuesday sentenced a Mumbai businessman to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5 crore on him for leaving a hijack threat note on a Jet Airways plane in October 2017. The court of special NIA judge K M Dave said the fine amount submitted by the convict, businessman Birju Salla, will be distributed among the crew members and passengers on board the affected plane.

Salla was accused of creating a hijack scare by leaving a threat note written in English and Urdu in a tissue box in the aircraft’s toilet on October 30.