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15 days have passed since the fishing boat along with its crew went missing mysteriously and this confusing situation has only left the family members of the fishermen in an ocean of misery.
Two police teams led by superintendent of police Sampath Kumar and Kiran respectively have been sent to Goa and Maharashtra and have joined in with the officers of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) there who are also assisting the operation. Till now no information has been received from them informs DySP Jai Shanker.
70% boat remain at harbour
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Suspected terrorist act: MLA Bhat
MLA Raghupati Bhat has written a letter to the Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on December 27 which stated that the Coast Guard had launched a search for the fishing boat, there had been no conclusive information about it till date.
“The fishermen community here strongly believes that this is a case where pirates or terrorists have hijacked the boat and have held these fishermen as hostages,” said Mr Bhat.
Union ministers informed
Yashpal Suvarna, president of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts Fish Marketing Federation addressed reporters and said that since the boat had gone missing off Goa coast, the matter had already been brought to the notice of the Union Ministers Ms. Sitharaman and D.V. Sadananda Gowda.
He said that such fishing boats normally took ration of food and water for a fortnight. The missing boat would have run out of food supply by now, he observed. “Such an incident had not taken place in the past,” he said
ICG and Indian Navy
The Defence minister Ms. Sitharaman had directed the Coast Guard and Indian Navy to search for the missing boat. A team of 15 fishermen had already left from Malpe and was coordinating with the Coastal Security Police (CSP) in the search for the missing fishermen, he informed.