New Delhi, MAY 14  (KMS): The last effort of a Kashmiri girl to trace her brothers, who were picked up by Indian police in the aftermath of the infamous Indian Airlines aircraft hijack drama at Kandahar, met with failure after the Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition filed by her.

A double bench of Justice B N Aggrawal and Justice G. S. Singhvi dismissed the petition.

Ruquaiya, in a petition filed in 2006, said that her brothers, who had been running a leather factory in Nepal since 1995, were picked up by the Indian police on August 28, 2000, after Indian Airlines Aircraft IA 814 was hijacked minutes after its take-off from Kathmandu on December 24, 1999 and later diverted to Kandhar in Afghanistan. According to the family the brothers were detained in a jail at Jodhpur, Rajasthan, a contention denied by the Indian government.

The petition said that Mushtaq Ahmad Rah and Muhammad Shafi Rah were among the 27 Kashmiris arrested by the Nepali police at the request of the Indian authorities. However, since then their whereabouts were not known despite directions from the Indian National Human Rights Commission for their production.

Having failed to know their whereabouts, the family filed a petition with the apex court seeking their production but this effort ended up in a failure as the court dismissed the petition.