Netflix India's head of content summoned over 'IC 814' web series row

The web series captured the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight 814 on December 24, 1999.

The content head of Netflix India has been summoned by the government amid the massive controversy surrounding 'IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack', a webseries on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight by Pakistan-based terror outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, sources have said.

The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry's summons to Netflix India chief Monika Shergill comes after hundreds of social media users accused the makers of the web series of deliberately changing the names of the hijackers to "Bhola" and "Shankar".

The web series, created by Anubhav Sinha and Trishant Srivastava, is inspired by the book 'Flight Into Fear:

The Captain's Story' Devi Sharan, the captain of the flight, and journalist Srinjoy Chowdhury. It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma and Pankaj Kapur in key roles.

The web series captured the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight 814 on December 24, 1999.

The plane, with 191 fliers onboard, took off from Nepal's Kathmandu and was headed for Delhi. Soon after take-off, five hijackers, who were posing as passengers, took control of the plane.

It later made several landings, at Amritsar, Lahore and Dubai, before being taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan.