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A Kuwaiti fishing trawler was suspiciously discovered roaming off the Mumbai coast on Tuesday. The boat, with three males on board, was intercepted by the patrolling boat of the Yellow Gate police at Prongs Lighthouse, about 4 nautical miles from the Gateway of India, close to Sassoon dock.
The boat in addition to the three males have been taken to Gateway of India after which the fishing vessel was parked there and the trio have been taken to Colaba police station the place they have been detained for questioning, police stated.
3 males hijacked the fishing vessel
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The trio, in the course of the probe, informed the police that they’d hijacked the fishing trawler of their Kuwaiti employer and escaped.
The three apprehended males additional revealed that they have been taken to Kuwait two years in the past by an agent the place they have been ill-treated and weren’t paid for the work.
“In those two years, the agent did not pay them for the work they did. As he ill-treated them, they decided to run away with the boat and came to Mumbai,” stated an officer.
Additionally they claimed that their passports had been deposited with their Kuwaiti boss.
Who’re these three males?
In line with a report by Hindustan Instances, the three males have been recognized as Nitso Ditto (31), J Sayyantha Anish (32) and Enfant Vijay Vinay Anthony (32).
Through the questioning, they informed the police that they have been from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and had began from Kuwait on 28 January.
“They decided to run away from there as they were neither paid for two years nor given food regularly. Their passports too were confiscated by their employers. They navigated their way to Mumbai with the help of a GPS device, and took 10 days to reach our shores,” the HT report cited Sanjay Latkar, DCP, Port Zone, as saying.
The three males additionally claimed that they have been checked twice en path to Mumbai, Latkar stated.
No FIR has been filed towards them but.
What’s subsequent?
Police stated the three apprehended males have been skilled fishermen.
The report quoted a Colaba police officer saying the trio was not giving correct solutions as they may neither communicate English nor Hindi correctly.
“We are yet to decide whether we need to take any action against them. But they are actually victims even though their way of re-entering the country was illegal,” the Colaba police officer added.
Utmost critical incident
Police stated the incident was being taken with utmost seriousness due to the 26 November 2008, Mumbai terror assaults when 10 closely armed Pakistani terrorists hijacked a vessel and reached the industrial capital of India to create mayhem.
All three males have been being questioned by the Indian Navy, Coast Guard and Mumbai Police.
With inputs from businesses