Alang Marine Police arrests five pirates

Bhavnagar: There have been number of incidents of theft in ships arriving at Alang ship breaking yard in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat recently. In one of the latest incidents, Rs 25 lakh items were stolen from a ship on Mahuva – Gopnath route in Arabian sea off Bhavnagar coast. Ship breaking agent Jitendra Mansukhlal Kamdar had filed complaint in this incident on 12 May at Alang Marine Police station following which investigation was started. Marine Police yesterday arrested five pirates for this crime including Babu Madhabhai Chudasama(Sartanpar Bandar village), Ketan Gambhirbhai Baraiya, Dinesh Mohanbhai Baraiya, Parshottam Madhabhai Chudasama and Talaja based Asif Yunusbhai Pathan. Police has recovered Rs 1.5 lakh stolen items from these five local pirates.

Detail of crime

6 computers, 4 TV sets, copper wire, engine parts, lose items, valves etc were stole from the ship purchased by Shiv Marine Industries of Alang. Khabhat VTS had informed Jitendra Kamdar of Shiv Marine Industry that there was an attempt of theft in his ship on 4 May. The ship arrived at Ghogha on 5 May. Various things like copper cable, computers, LCD TVs and other things worth Rs 25 lakh were found stolen from the ship. Five pirates had come in boat to steal the things. The ship belonged to Malaysia. A complaint was filed on May 12.

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