A Group of Ministers on Tuesday cleared proposals to make the anti-hijacking law more stringent by including death sentence as a punishment. The GoM, headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram, also decided to incorporate a new clause to cover the aspect of conspiracy to hijack an aircraft which does not exist in the Anti-Hijacking Act of 1982. Sources said, the Clause 4 of the Act, which now provides for life imprisonment and a fine for hijacking, would be amended to include death penalty also. <br/><br/>They said the proposed amendments will now be given a legal shape with the intent of bringing them before Parliament in the ensuing Budget Session for the law to be amended. In 2005, the government had unveiled a tough anti-hijack policy under which any hijacked plane, being used as a missile to target vital installations as in the 9/11 terror attack, will be shot down.<br/><br/>The sources said the effort now is to incorporate these stringent policy provisions in the anti-hijack law. The policy, which was cleared five years ago by the Cabinet Committee on Security, also provides that no negotiations whatsoever will e held with the hijackers on their demands. These provisions aim at countering situations like the December 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines' IC-814 which was taken to Kandahar. Four top terrorists were freed in exchange of the passengers, one of whom was killed by the hijackers.