Is Swapping Terrorists for Hostages an Encouragement to Plane-Hijackers?

YES... Swapping Terrorists for hostages an encouragement to plane-hijackers because terrorists know very well that India is a soft hearted county and their Law is not to much harsh and they never punish terrorists shortly, therefore terrorists take advantage of our kindlyness and thats why they doing all this stuff.

Yes I truley agree with niketan. Terrorists take advantage of the judicial system of India and so they indulge in crimes like hijacking knowing that even if they are caught, their fellow person will again do indulge in some illegal activity in which they will demand him in exchange of hostages and so I firmly believe that kill these terrorist as soon as they are found guilty.

In my point of view when a terrorist found guilty, he should be executed as soon as possible so that the condition for exchanging of hostages would never come in future. But, as India is a soft nation where hearing of any case takes many years to give a firm decision. This is the reason why Kasab still enjoying in jail.

Keeping a terrorist for a long time is definitely encouraging further plane hijacks. & at that time we will have no choice but to fulfill all their demands. Because we cant negotiate when hundreds of lives of our people are in stake.

So to avoid such kind of hijacking terrorists should be given capital punishment as soon as possible. Another thing is to make security as tight as possible.

Obviously this swapping thing is an encouraging factor to terrorists, and that is why they are Hijacking planes repeatedly!

But this should not be the perspective to look at this issue. i.e., "whether encouraging or discouraging!".

"what is going wrong with the system that is allowing the terrorists to do so! and what should be done to avoid such errs!" should be the perspective. We have many options like increasing the security personnel at airports, phase wise checking, keeping security guards along with the Air hostess and pilots inside air planes etc. Every one should be checked not only at the check points but mainly at the door of the airplane.

Safe guarding nation from terrorists is important, but disclosing loopholes to security in the form of hostages should be given a serious thought. After all safe journey is what people expect!

Hi all.

We all know about the Kandahar hijacking of Indian airlines flight 814. It was in a flight from Tribhuvan airport of Kadmandu to Delhi. It was hijacked by a team of terrorists of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. And after 7 days of negotiation Indian government released 3 terrorists who was in jail in exchange of 178 passengers. In my opinion this type of swapping will encourage the terrorists to do more plane hijacking. For preventing this, as my friend told we must increase the security and checking before one get into the plane.

Hi, while most people who've spoken above have said that the laws in India should be made stricter, how I ask them will they be made stricter? Also, moving to the issue that swapping terrorists for hostages increases incidences of plane hijacking, this is true but not only regarding plane incidences. Don't we bow down to Naxalites when they kidnap any public servent?What we should have is a strong framework to be implemented in a situation like this. We should have skilled and trained negotiators who can act as mediators in situations like this. Also merely increasing security checks isn't the answer because in a country as populous as India plugging all loopholes in security is a distant dream.

Why not make the people more aware and responsible? Impart training- basic training to everyone- students, homemakers, professionals regarding security and how to respond if and when such a situation arises. And people, we do have very strict laws and execution and capital punishment is not the answer. The reason why Kasab is still in jail is because no matter how great an offence, the undertrial has the right to a proper and rigorous defence not only to prove whether he's really guilty but also to ensure that he gets the right amount of punishmant if he's guilty and to deliver justice. The function of the Judiciary is to impart justice not exact vengeance.

Hello friends, I think the swapping of terrorist against hostages is not good. Because those terrorist who got freedom may be more harmful and can able to kill more people in comparison to hostages. I like introduce a point that if they killed our hostages then first we have to give a warning to those terrorist who kidnapped the people. If they kill our hostages then we will kill those terrorists who are arrested by the govt.

Then if they killed hostages then our police has to kill the terrorist also.

By this terrorist got the negative felling about their people. Here govt, has to follow the policy of "TIT FOR TAT". This policy works and the terrorist didn't have the will to do that again. Because if they kill our people then we kill theirs. So they got afraid and do not try to do this type shame thing.

I have a real example of this policy. The example is our armed forces. They do the same if the other country do that. If other country kills our soldiers then our armed force will do the same.

Let us think about the soldiers of our country. They sacrifice their life to our country. It is not only their duty to save our country. We are also the member of this country we also have to think about the country. If security of our country has a price of our life then we have to ready for those sacrifices.

Exchange of terrorists/militants for people is not good, but view from the angle of hostages. They weren't involved in the crime yet they were captured by barbarians. So, the best way could be to conduct a fast and impartial trial once a militant is nabbed and if proved guilty, hang him immediately.

Releasing terrorist for the hostages is often regarded as a weakness of the government but It is not so.

It is the prime responsibility of government to safeguard its citizen and in order to ensure their safety releasing the terrorists can be a choice but not the only choice.

Government should plan a trap so that it could rescue its hostages first and then deal with the terrorists if possible.

Hello everybody. I think it as an encouragement for hijackers. As some of my friends said, the terrorist must be hanged as soon as possible after collecting adequate info from him. Also the security checks must be strict or security level must be high. One of my friends mentioned above to allow security guards in the plane. But who knows if the security guard in the plane is also a part of the terrorist team. You may also come up with the point that this may happen at the airport too. But that's why we are focussing on increasing levels of security.