IC-814 row: Netflix updates disclaimer ‘to include real, code names of hijackers’

Netflix India issued an official statement on Tuesday addressing the controversy surrounding the Anubhav Sinha-directed ‘IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack.’ The OTT platform’s content head for India announded that the disclaimer of the web series has been updated to ‘include the real and code names of the hijackers.’

The Netflix docuseries ‘IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack,’ has been facing criticism from a section of social media users over its portrayal of the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. The series, based on real events, dramatises the hijacking by the Pakistan-based terror group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.