New Delhi: The seized North Korean ship is
likely to be booked under the Indian Maritime Act for entering
the Indian waters illegally, official sources said on Sunday.
The sources said Defence Ministry, Ministry of External Affairs, Union Home Ministry and Coast Guards were
coordinating steps so that the ship `M V Mu San` could be moved to Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh for further
inspection. The ship is expected to take five days to cover
the distance between Port Blair where the ship currently is
aanchored and Kakinada port.
The ship is carrying 3.3 lakh gunnybags of sugar weighing 16,500 kilograms.
A team of two nuclear scientists from Kalapakkam had carried out preliminary investigations of the ship and their
report ruled out existence of any "CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear) traces" from the ship.
The security agencies however want a thorough investigation of the ship by bringing the vessel to Kakinada
port to find out whether there was any CBRN consignment.
The exhaustive searches will again be conducted with the
help of more sophisticated equipment after offloading entire
consignment of sugar from the ship, sources said.
Bureau Report
