Rachna Katyal IC 814 Hijack Passenger Rupin Katyal’s Widow

Right now, Netflix streams a brand-new series called IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack. The show has generated debate for “distorting” facts and assigning Hindu names like Bhola and Shankar to hijackers.

Netflix India announced on Tuesday that it added the hijackers’ true and code names to the series’ opening disclaimer

The statement came after the streamer’s content head Monika Shergill met Information and Broadcasting Secretary Sanjay Jaju.

On December 24, 1999, terrorists seized IC814 from Rachna Katyal and Rupin Katyal as they returned from their honeymoon in Kathmandu

Married for barely twenty-one days, the couple endured an incredible journey that would permanently alter Rachna’s life.
Threatening to kill passengers should their demands not be satisfied, the terrorists insisted on the release of three militants kept in Indian jails.

On the first day of the hijack, the terrorists separated the men from the women.

Rupin was brutally murdered to demonstrate their resolve, a fact unknown to Rachna at the time. In the aftermath of the hijack, Rachna was devastated.

Rupin Katyal’s Last Words

Sharan said Rupin kept seeking for water although grievously wounded. “Papa pani, Papa pani,” Rupin said goodbye.

Still, her in-laws supported her as their own daughter. They were really instrumental in enabling her to reconstruct her life. Chander Mohan Katyal, Rachna’s father-in-law, pushed her to find happiness once more and to remarry.

Her in-laws helped Rachna Katyal get a job with Indian Airlines, giving her a new direction

In 2001, two years after the hijack, she found love again and remarried. She and her new husband, an MNC manager, welcomed their first child in 2002.
Her father-in-law performed the Kanyadaan, a Hindu ritual traditionally done by the bride’s father.