“Happy on hearing the news, Ankit’s mother is eagerly awaiting her son’s return. Later, in an email to the families, the Greece-based ship owner’s company Petronav Carriers LLC had refused to acknowledge the kidnapped sailors as its employees and maintained that they had been provided shelter and food at the ship on humanitarian grounds after they were found riding around the area of Tema (Ghana) for days without food and in a dirty condition.īack home, the families of the victims were worried about the safety of the seamen. The family members were asked to put pressure on the ship owner through the Indian Embassy in Nigeria. The pirates had initially demanded one million dollars as ransom by making the captive seamen talk to their families from the satellite phone of the hijackers, but later had scaled down their demand to half a million dollars. On April 19, Ankit Hooda, along with four other Indian sailors Sudeep Choudhry, Chirag Jadhav, Pulcha Sai Avinash and Moogu Ravi, had been kidnapped by pirates from vessel MT Apecus on which they were working. Happy to share that they were successfully released today.” For this inter-ministerial group of officers has been set up by the GoI to deal the situation. 5 Indian seafarers were kidnapped in Nigeria on. Making the announcement, Union Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh L Mandaviya said, “I am happy to share that due to sustained efforts of various stakeholders-the Ministry of Shipping, the Directorate General of Shipping and the High Commission of India in Abuja-the kidnapped Indian seafarers were successfully released and reached the safe custody of Indian authorities on June 27.”Įarlier, Mandaviya tweeted, “Our commitment to protect each and every Indian working overseas. The sailors were rescued by the joint efforts of the Ministry of Shipping, the Directorate General of Shipping and the High Commission of India in Abuja. Meanwhile, the Shipping Ministry in a statement said five Indian seafarers who had been kidnapped by the pirates in Nigeria had been rescued. Five Indian sailors, including Ankit Hooda from Assan village of Rohtak district, have been rescued from the captivity of the pirates in Nigeria.Īnkit’s relatives said they had received information from the family of another sailor who had called them.īharat Deshwal, Ankit’s cousin, said he had spoken to people in the Directorate of Shipping and was told that the five seafarers are now in the custody of the Nigerian Navy and the Indian embassy authorities in that country.
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