1. Roberto Giori, then-owner of De La Rue Giori, which dominated the global currency-printing industry, was a passenger on the hijacked Kathmandu to Delhi IC 814 flight, according to a 2000 Time magazine report.
2. Indian intelligence officers suspected Dawood Ibrahim, a notorious Indian gangster and terrorist, of aiding the hijackers in accessing Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu.
3. RAW officer Shashi Bhushan Singh Tomar, who was the First Secretary at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu, was also on the hijacked IC 814. Tomar was the brother-in-law of NK Singh, secretary to then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
4. After the hijacking, passengers reported that the hijackers collected money for the Afghan government and tasked Anuj Sharma with commissioning a memento of the incident for a Kandahar museum.
6. Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, one of the hijackers responsible for the murder of passenger Rupin Katyal, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pakistan on March 1, 2022. The identity of the gunmen remains unknown.
5. Indian Airlines suspended flights to and from Kathmandu after the hijacking, resuming them five months later on June 1, 2000. The flight number IC 814 remained in use until February 26, 2011, when Air India retired it following a merger.
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