Mumbai, (PTI) The Mumbai police arrested 9 pirates who had been dropped at India on Wednesday, days after the Navy caught them for hijacking an Iranian fishing vessel with 23 Pakistani crew members on board off the Somalia coast, an official mentioned.
The hijacking incident passed off on March 29, he mentioned.
The Indian Navy rescued the hijacked Iranian fishing vessel and its crew after greater than 12 hours of intense coercive tactical measures as a part of the anti-piracy operation. On the time of incident, the vessel was roughly 90 nm southwest of Socotra.
“After the profitable operation of the Indian Navy group, the pirates surrendered and the crew members had been rescued. The pirates had been then taken into custody by the Navy and after six days of journey, the pirates had been dropped at Mumbai,” he mentioned.
The Navy then handed over the pirates to the town police, he added.
The Mumbai police registered a case below varied sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Maritime Anti-Piracy Act, the Passports Act and the Foreigners Act towards the pirates and positioned them below arrest, he mentioned.
The arrested pirates had been recognized as Gelie Jama Farah (50), Ahmed Bashir Omar (42), Abdikarin Mohmmad Shire (34), Adan Hasan Warmase (44), Mohammed Abdi Ahmed (34), Abdikadir Mohmmad Ali )(28), Aydid Mohmud Jimale (30), Stated Yasin Adan (25) and Jama Stated Elmi (18), the police mentioned.
The motion comes two weeks after the Navy rescued one other vessel and 17 hostages, and captured 35 armed pirates in a virtually 40-hour dramatic mid-sea operation off the Somalia coast. These 35 pirates had been additionally dropped at Mumbai and positioned below arrest by the police.
