No interpreters,pirates sent to judicial custody

With police unable to find any interpreters yet,the 15 Somalian pirates were sent to judicial custody on Monday.

With police unable to find any interpreters yet,the 15 Somalian pirates were sent to judicial custody on Monday. The public prosecutor told the court that the police needed the custody as they were not able to get interpreters,but Ballard Pier magistrates court declined the request and sent the pirates to Arthur Road Jail. In a first-of-its-kind operation in India,Coast Guard and Navy personnel had apprehended 15 pirates while they were trying to attack a vessel 60 nautical miles off the Lakshadweep coast on January 30.

The Mumbai police have registered a case of attempt to murder and have also booked the pirates under various other sections of rioting under the Indian Penal Code and Foreigners Act for entering the Indian waters without permission.

Meanwhile,the 20 men who were kept as hostages on Prantalay 14 were brought to Mumbai from Kochi where they had been admitted for medical aid. Somalian pirates had on January 30 hijacked a trawler Prantalay 14 and taken 20 crew members as hostage,including 4 Thail nationals. They were using Prantalay 14 as a mother ship to attack Merchant Vessel Verdi.

Director of Shipping Company PT Interfishery,who owns Prantalay trawlers,came to the Yellowgate police station on Monday to the claim the trawler. Songsang Patavanich came to the police station to claim the Prantalay 11,the trawler with was attacked on Sunday,along with Thai embassy.

The director had come to the police station but we have not committed anything to them regarding the return of the trawler, said Chandrakant Naik,senior police inspector from Yellow Gate. The embassy officials were,however,at the police station to take Thai nationals back to Thailand.

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