New Delhi, Jun 18, 2012 : Chhattisgarh Government has sought help from External Affairs Minister S M Krishna for securing safe return of 17 Indians who have been held captive for over three months by pirates near Somalia.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, in a letter to
Krishna, has sought his "personal intervention" for ensuring
release of Preetam Kumar Sahu, a native of Rajnandgaon
district of the state who was working as an engineering cadet
in the Shipping Corporation of India Ltd, and 16 others.
The Chief Minister has attached a letter by Lokdas Sahu
who said that his son Preetam was sailing from Dubai to
Nigeria on MT Royal Grace, a Panama flag vessel on March 1
which was hijacked near Somalia.
Sahu has said that 17 Indians are struggling for life
owing to shortage of drinking water and food.
"This issue is of serious humanitarian concern and
therefore, I would like to seek your personal intervention in
this matter to ensure survival and safe return of the 17
Indians including Preetam Kumar Sahu," Singh said in a letter
written to Krishna.
"A word from you will make me highly obliged and will
certainly reassure an anxious and worried (Preetam's) father,"
the chief minister said.
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