Officials said on Monday that New Delhi, the CBI has handled the investigation in the case of Abhinandhe Yasudasana, who mysteriously went missing from a ship eight years ago, where he was working as a pipe fitter, officials said on Monday.
The federal agency has taken up an inquiry on the orders of the Kerala High Court, hearing a petition transferred by the sailor’s father, Joseudasana.
Kollam’s greetings in Kerala were working at the United Arab Emirates, a Sharjah -based company at Mesh Marine LLC.
During his employment, he went missing from the ship on his journey to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from Egypt on March 21, 2017.
His father presented the state police in a complaint that Abhinandh contacted Egypt and Turki on the phone several times and looked very happy.
On March 17, 2017, he told family members that other colleagues were torturing him due to lack of their work experience, alleging his father.
Abhinandh told the family that his supervisor was torturing him brutally and he was the last communication that was obtained from him, his father said in the complaint.
Abhinand cut the phone call, saying that it was a passport verification time, his father said.
In its presentations in the High Court, the Kerala Police explained its limit in conducting a complete investigation citing a decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Italian Marine, stating that the state police had no regional jurisdiction to investigate a crime that was beyond 12 sea miles from the land area.
It said that when the Abhinandanandh went missing from the ship, which was under the flag of the Bahamas in international water, the crime, if any, is to be dealt with only under the Bahamas Act, committed by someone on the ship.
“And since the Union of India has no MLAT with Bahamas, Interpol’s assistance in the case cannot be sought,” a statement filed by the detective inspector in the court.
It states that the Interpol channels were tapped and the UAE and the National Bureau of Saudi Arabia had already communicated that they had no idea about the incident and NCB Cairo had demanded a letter to a letter for information.
Police said that the version of Bahamas would be very important in the case.
In his order handing over the investigation to the CBI, Justice PV Kuhanikrishnan said, “If a person is missing and his hideout is not known, it is the duty of the state and the central government that an inquiry is done and concluded according to the law,” Justice PV Kunhikrishnan investigated the CBI and said in his order.
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