Why no compensation for kin of missing crew of Kuber, MP asks

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Press Trust of India Vadodara
Last Updated : Nov 26 2013 | 5:56 PM IST
Independent Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has requested the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to consider sympathetically the demand of compensation to the relatives of four crew members of fishing boat Kuber, which had been hijacked by Ajmal Kasab and his companions.
Kasab and other nine Pakistani terrorists seized Kuber to reach the vicinity of Mumbai coast before launching the deadly terrorist attack on India's financial capital on November 26, 2008.
While beheaded body of Amarsinh Solanki, Kuber's captain, was found in the abandoned boat, bodies of other four fishermen, namely, Ramesh Nagji Bamaniya from Simasi village in Una taluka of Junagadh, Balwant Prabhu, Mukesh Rathod and Nathu Nanu from Vasi Borsi village of Navsari district, were not found.
Maharashtra government paid compensation to the Solanki's family; it should also provide compensation to families of four other crew members, treating them on par with other victims of the attack, Nathwani has said in a letter to the Prime Minister.
Kasab, the lone terrorist who was captured alive, during his trial told the Mumbai court that terrorists killed all the five crew members of Kuber, Nathwani reminded, demanding that families of missing fishermen should not be discriminated against.
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First Published: Nov 26 2013 | 5:56 PM IST

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