The Gujarat Police has registered an FIR in opposition to a bunch of 20 to 25 Pakistani Navy personnel on costs of kidnapping and try and homicide seven Indian fishermen within the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast. An official gave this data on Sunday.
According to the FIR, the incident occurred round 5 pm on October 6, when seven crew members aboard an Indian boat named ‘Harsiddhi’ have been fishing in Indian waters off Jakhau coast.
It stated that 20 to 25 uniformed troopers aboard a Pakistan Maritime Security Agency boat on a ship named ‘PMSA Barkat 1060’ began unprovoked firing on the Indian boat. They destroyed and sank the boat, kidnapped the fishermen and took them to their ship.
The fishermen have been thrashed with sticks, injuring them. The FIR states that the accused individuals additionally recorded a video of the fishermen and launched them after the menace.
Porbandar Superintendent of Police Ravi Mohan Saini stated the fishermen have been rescued and delivered to Jakhau port in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Friday by an Indian Coast Guard boat.
He stated the FIR was registered at Jakhau and transferred to Navibandar, a police station in Porbandar district, which has territorial jurisdiction over 12 nautical miles from the Gujarat coast.
According to the FIR, a case was registered in opposition to the accused beneath sections 307 (try and homicide), 365 (kidnapping), 427 (inflicting harm), 324 (voluntarily inflicting harm) and 506 (1) of the Indian Penal Code.
Saini stated, ‘The Indian boat sank as a result of collision and we shouldn’t have GPS (Global Positioning System) to search out its coordinates. Based on the criticism of a fisherman, an FIR has been registered beneath sections of try and homicide and kidnapping. “As of now, we shouldn’t have any extra particulars than the one offered by the complainant fisherman. Our Special Operations Group Sub-Inspector is probing the matter.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
