MP urges Modi to bring back fisherman's body from Pakistan

The fisherman, a native of Malkhet village, allegedly died of illness at a prison hospital in Karachi

Rajya Sabha MP, Parimal Nathwani, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up the issue of an Indian fisherman, who reportedly died in a jail in Pakistan on October 2. 

Nathwani has urged Modi to engage in a dialogue with Pakistani authorities asking them to send the body of the deceased to his native village in Gujarat so that his family can perform his last rites.

The fisherman, a native of Malkhet village in Umargam taluka of Valsad district, allegedly died of illness at a prison hospital in Karachi.

The deceased was reportedly one of the seven fishermen who were found ferrying a boat, which was seized by the Pakistani Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) in Arabian Sea near Jakhau port in Kutch district on December 20 last year. They were charged for violating international maritime boundary limit.

Nathwani told PTI that he has written a letter to the Prime Minister to ask the Indian High Commissioner's office in Pakistan to take up, with the authority concerned, the issue of the fisherman's death.

A senior official at the state Fisheries Department, however, said that they have received no official communication from the Pakistani authorities yet.