Anti-Hijacking Bill 2016 extends to offences outside India under specific conditions

This Bill aims to give effect to the 1970 Hague Convention and the 2010 Beijing Protocol by updating India's laws on aircraft hijacking. It defines new types of unlawful acts against civil aviation and establishes penalties and procedures for their prosecution.

The law applies to any person (including those outside India) who commits or is involved in hijacking or related offences against aircraft. It also applies to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Central and State Government officers, and Designated Courts responsible for investigation, prosecution, and trial.

• Defines hijacking to include threats, attempts, abetment, organizing, and assisting offenders to evade justice.
• Prescribes the death penalty if hijacking results in the death of a hostage or security personnel; otherwise, life imprisonment (natural life) and confiscation of property.
• Empowers the Central Government to grant arrest, investigation, and prosecution powers to NIA officers or other government officers.
• Establishes Designated Courts (Sessions Courts or NIA Special Courts) for speedy trials, with trials held on a day-to-day basis.
• Restricts bail: accused cannot be released unless the Public Prosecutor does not oppose or the Court is satisfied of innocence and low risk of re-offending.
• Deems hijacking offences as extraditable and not political offences for the purpose of extradition treaties.

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