‘Little hope of tracing 2 missing sailors’, Centre informs Supreme Court
The Indian government informed the Supreme Court that there is little hope of finding two Indian sailors missing after a drone attack on the merchant ship M V AGN Ragnar. The court has directed authorities to assist the families with insurance claims.
NEW DELHI: The government informed the Supreme Court on Friday that there is very little hope of locating two Indian seafarers who are missing since the drone attack on Palau-flagged merchant ship M V AGN Ragnar on July 25 while it was departing Ukrainian waters.Filing a combined action-taken report by MEA and the Directorate General of Maritime Administration, solicitor general (SG) Tushar Mehta told the bench that despite intense search and rescue operations, the missing Indian seafarers — Deepak Kumar Gupta and Ram Chandra Dubey — could not be located.The Supreme Court told Mehta to facilitate the families’ availing maritime insurance payments.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.
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