Shobha Karandlaje, MP, said on Wednesday that she had met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi and sought the help of his Ministry in tracing the fishing boat, Suvarna Tribhuja, which went missing off the Goa coast on December 15. She also submitted a memorandum in this regard to Mr. Rajnath Singh in this regard.
In a press release issued here, Ms. Karandlaje said that after accepting her memorandum,
Mr. Rajanth Singh had assured her of directing his officers to conduct a thorough investigation into the possibilities of whether the boat had been hijacked by either sea pirates or terrorists.
He had assured her of directing police of all States on the West Coast to coordinate and conduct investigation on this issue. She said that she had told Mr. Singh that the fishermen across coastal Karnataka had become a worried lot after the boat went missing. Fishing activities had almost come to a standstill here.
The fishermen were dissatisfied and they also felt that not enough efforts were being made to trace the fishing boat, Ms. Karandlaje added.
