Cancer-stricken wife, Africa trip & a hijack hoax: Sodepur man sent to police custody

Kolkata, Nov 12 (UNI) A 56-year-old Sodepur resident, Partha Pratim Nandi, who allegedly planted a handwritten hijack threat note aboard an Air India flight at Kolkata airport on Wednesday, was remanded to five days of police custody by the Barrackpore subdivisional court on Thursday for further interrogation. A senior police officer said that unwilling to leave his cancer-stricken wife, who is bedridden and battling for her life, behind to travel to Africa on an official assignment, a 56-year-old man allegedly planted a hijack threat note in the toilet of an Air India aircraft in an attempt to get the flight…