Pirates have hijacked a Bangladesh-flagged ship in the Arabian Sea off the coast of India, Bangladeshi shipping officials said on Sunday.
“The pirates embarked on board after chasing M.V. Jahan Moni in the Arabian Sea on Sunday,” a senior official at the Bangladesh Shipping Department (BSD) said.
“We have sought help from anti-piracy teams in Dubai and Singapore, and Indian coast guards,” Rear Admiral Bazlur Rahman, head of the shipping department, told Reuters, without giving further details.
The BSD, an arm of the ministry of shipping, monitors and regulates external shipping and ferry services.
Another BSD official said: “The ship has been captured by the pirates.”
The 16-crew ship owned by a Bangladeshi shipping firm was heading towards Europe with merchandise from Singapore, the BSD said. No other details about the ship were available immediately.
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Panel for aid to torture victims
New Delhi, Dec. 5: Victims of torture inflicted by public servants may be eligible to get compensation from their tormentors if the suggestions of a parliamentary panel on the Prevention of Torture Bill are accepted and turned into law.
The select committee on the Bill has also finetuned the definition of the torture to bring it in line with the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
The Prevention of Torture Bill, that seeks to provide punishment for torture inflicted by public servants, was passed by the Lok Sabha in May. —PTI