FIR Against 10 Pak Security Personnel After Indian Fisherman Killed Off Guj Coast

Mumbai: Gujarat Police on Monday registered an FIR against 10 personnel of the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) after they fired at an Indian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea off Gujarat coast, killing a crew member and injuring another.

The FIR was registered on Sunday night at Navi Bandar police station which has territorial jurisdiction beyond 12 nautical miles off the Gujarat coast in Porbandar district, under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 114 (abettor present when the offence is committed), and relevant provisions of the Arms Act, the official said.

As per the FIR, ten unidentified PMSA personnel, five each onboard two boats, opened fire at the Indian fishing boat ‘Jalpari’ at around 4 pm Saturday, killing one Sridhar Ramesh Chamre (32), a fisherman from Palghar district in Maharashtra. The dead fisherman’s body was brought to Okha on Sunday

Another fisherman, named Dilip Solanki (34) from Diu, was injured in the firing. He is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Okha coastal town of Devbhumi Dwarka district in Gujarat.

An official source in Delhi earlier had said that India has taken serious note of the unprovoked firing by PMSA and will take up the issue diplomatically with the Pakistan side, as reported by Times Now.

The boat had sailed from Okha for fishing activities on October 25 with seven fishermen on board, two of whom were from Maharashtra, four from Gujarat and one from Diu (in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu), officials said.

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