A 21-year-old sailor from Dhule territory successful Maharashtra, Yash Avinash Deore, has been missing from a merchant vessel sailing from Saudi Arabia to India.
A autochthonal of Deur colony successful Dhule, Yash joined the merchant navy past year. His household said helium went connected a merchant vessel arsenic an “Ordinary Seaman (OS)” done Swaraj Marines Pvt Ltd successful Thane successful June 2024. But connected January 30 this year, Yash’s begetter got a telephone from the institution that helium was missing and a hunt cognition was on.
His begetter instantly contacted his elder lad Nayan Deore, who works astatine a backstage institution successful Pune. “I rushed to Thane to conscionable the institution officials. But I did not get satisfactory information. So I contacted the Directorate General (DG) of Shipping successful Mumbai. They asked the institution to supply afloat accusation astir my brother. We person got the vessel captain’s study astir the rescue cognition and different details. But, till today, we person not received immoderate factual accusation astir Yash,” said Nayan.
Further, connected February 2, Nayan besides filed an exertion astatine the Naupada constabulary presumption successful Thane metropolis seeking assistance successful tracing his brother. It stated that Yash was deployed connected “MT Athina I” connected the Oman to Alang (India) route. Yash past spoke to his household connected January 28. Two days later, the household was told by the institution that his was a lawsuit of “man overboard (fallen disconnected the vessel into the sea)” and that it happened connected January 29.
Senior constabulary inspector Abhay Mahajan of Naupada constabulary presumption said, “The incidental has taken spot abroad. So we did not registry a missing report. But we asked the institution unit to supply accusation astir his whereabouts.”
Chandan Haygunde is an adjunct exertion with The Indian Express with 15 + years of acquisition successful covering issues related to Crime, Courts, National Security and Human Rights. He has been associated with The Indian Express since 2007. Chandan has done investigative reporting connected incidents of terrorism, near helping extremism, espionage cases, wildlife crimes, narcotics racket, cyber crimes and sensational execution cases successful Pune and different parts of Maharashtra. While moving connected the ‘Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Fellowship connected Tigers, Tiger Habitats and Conservation’ successful 2012, helium reported extensively connected the amerciable activities successful the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve successful Maharashtra. He has done in-depth reporting connected the cases related to the Koregaon Bhima unit successful Pune and hearings of the ‘Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry’. ... Read More