Indian navy captures 61 pirates in Arabian Sea

[StingRoy]

Indian navy captures 61 pirates in Arabian Sea

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy says it has captured 61 pirates from a hijacked Mozambiquan fishing vessel after a brief gunfight in the Arabian Sea.

A statement says the Indian navy ships also rescued 13 crew members on Sunday night nearly 695 miles (1,100 kilometers) off the coast of Kochi in southern India.

The navy was checking whether the pirates were from Somalia or Yemen.

This was the third anti-piracy operation by the Indian navy this year. The navy captured 28 Somali pirates last month and another 15 in January.

Indian warships have been escorting merchant ships through pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa since 2008.

 

[StingRoy]

Navy rescues 13 Indian sailors, arrests 61 Somali pirates

The Indian Navy rescued 13 Indian crew members, held hostage by Somali pirates, around 600 nautical miles off the western coast in the Arabian Sea on Monday.

The rescue mission, carried out by INS Khukri, also captured 61 pirates intercepting their mother vessel Vega 5. The pirates were being brought to Mumbai.

The feat comes after the Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week, decided to formulate a suitable standard operating procedures for the Navy and for its coordination with other navies engaged in the anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, senior government sources told Headlines Today that Egypt and Dubai have complained to India about the excessive media coverage of the hostage crisis.

They feared that the hype by the Indian media was not helping negotiators trying to strike a deal with Somali pirates for the early release of the sailors.

Apart from the Indian crew, sailors of other nationalities have also been held in captivity. There were Yemeni, Ghanaian, Egyptian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Sudanese sailors along with Indians on board the five ships hijacked by Somali pirates in the recent months.

Earlier, 11 Indian crew members on board merchant vessel Rak Afrikana were rescued by a Spanish navy ship on March 10 from the pirates' clutches after 11 months of being taken hostage. They were reported safe in Kenya.

On the other side, the fate of 53 other Indian sailors in the captivity of Somali pirates still hangs in balance. That includes the six Indians on board the Egyptian vessel, MV Suez.

 

[cross1993]

Why did the pirates brought to Mumbai?

 

[KS]

Why capture and waste my money ??

 

[tanlixiang28776]

Wouldn't be easier to transport them to an international court?

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Why capture and waste my money ??

Because killing them will waste my democracy.

 

[StingRoy]

Should they have got the Indian sailors back and let the pirates go free, so that they could hold hostage to another Indian ship crew? Atleast 61 pirates off duty for a few months. We can't hold them for much long anyways.

 

[StingRoy]

Navy intercepts pirate ship, 61 pirates arrested
The Indian Navy on Monday intercepted a pirate mother ship and arrested 61 pirates.

The ship Vega-5 was intercepted 600 nautical miles off the country’s west coast.

About thirteen hostages have been rescued in the operation that was carried by Navy’s INS Kalpeni.

The hostages and pirates are being brought to Mumbai and Kochi.

INS Kalpeni was inducted into the navy in October last year.

In January, the Navy under 'Operation Island Watch' had sunk two pirate mother ships and apprehended 43 pirates.

The pirates were questioned in Mumbai by intelligence agencies for any possible terror links.

India on Friday tweaked its navy's rules of engagement against pirates in the Indian Ocean, widening the scope of its offensive operations but within the framework of international laws of the seas.

The government is working on a tough law to deal with the piracy problem.

At present, piracy is dealt with under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and century-old Admiralty law but the government would like to have a separate statute with provisions to effectively tackle the problem that takes place far away from Indian shores.

The Navy has deployed three ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to deal with the piracy menace.

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Does anyone know about Naval Laws? Can these pirates be prosecuted in India?

 

[Roybot]

Indian Navy seems to be the most successful navy in this anti piracy operation so far?

 

[Tractor]

Because killing them will waste my democracy.

Captain Jack Sparrow says no waste of money, no waste democracy,just transfer them to him.

 

[KS]

Because killing them will waste my democracy.

Are they Indian citizens ??

Last time I checked they were lawless clans from the god-forsaken country of Somalia who make a living killing sailors many of them Indians.

So I dont see how the 'democracy' goes a waste.

But I will tell how my tax money will go a waste - we have no established SOP for handling the trials of the captured pirates. So we will keep them in lockup, feed them, take care of them and in fact they will be much happier in Indian jails with three foods per day than in Somalia.

Best solution is sink their mother ship, take the arms and let them be on the ship itself. If thwy somehow manage to escape its their luck else let them have a good journey to Mr.Jones' locker.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Are they Indian citizens ??

Last time I ckecked they were lawless clans from a god-forsaken country of Somalia who make a living killing sailors many of them Indians.

So I dont see how the 'democracy' goes a waste.

But I will tell how my tax money will go a waste - we have no established SOP for handling the trials of the captured pirates. So we will keep them in lockup, feed them, take care of them and in fact they will be much happier in Indian jails with three foods per day than in Somalia.

If we don't have an SOP then we should start making one. We should try them and then punish them through a court of law.

These are the most basic virtues of being a civilized country, aren't they?

 

[KS]

If we don't have an SOP then we should start making one. We should try them and then punish them through a court of law.

These are the most basic virtues of being a civilized country, aren't they?

No. when your own citizens are being locked up in jails without a proper trial and about 2 crore cases pending in various courts across the country it is only pure insanity to bring in more pressure on the system especially if you dont know how to deal with them.

And it is this stupid moral high ground that has been the bane of India for millenia together. Be civil with people who are civil not to blood thirsty pirates who dont hesitate to kill for a dollar.

Somali ambassador defends Russian treatment of pirates. - Qaran News

The tanker, with a Russian crew of 23, was hijacked on May 5 off the Somali coast. After a Russian naval operation on May 6 freed the tanker, capturing 10 pirates and killing one, the disarmed pirates were put into inflatable boats without navigational systems and pushed off into open waters.

Russia said it had no choice but to set the pirates adrift, citing the absence of international laws to prosecute them, and their boat disappeared from radars an hour later.

Love the Russian reaction. Thats why they are still feared across the world. Not like the 'civilized democracy' India whose defence minister says he cant do anything to rescue the sailors in the clutches of the pirates.

 

[cross1993]

China has been the release of these pirates, only firearms seized.

 

[Roybot]

China has been the release of these pirates, only firearms seized.

Kinda pointless its not that hard to rearm.