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...Qasab, has, however, gotten his day in court only six months after being arrested, and his verdicts is expected within a year - an efficiency rarely seen in the Indian court system. This trial, however, is the subject of intense international interest. "We have trials that go on for decades," Mehta says, noting that 65% of the people in Indian jails are simply waiting for their court dates. Convictions in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, for example, were handed down after 13 years, in 2006 and death sentences for several of the accused delivered a year later...
...Science predicted that the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world's oceanic stocks by 2050. Yet, Somalia's seas still offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks. In other parts of the Indian Ocean region, such as the Persian Gulf, fishermen resort to dynamite and other extreme measures to pull in the kinds of catches that are still in abundance off the Horn of Africa. (Read about illegal wildlife trade...
...page charge sheet. (The judge acknowledged that he still hasn't finished the whole thing.) Qasab does not speak English, but there is no Urdu translator to explain the proceedings to him, and his request for an Urdu version of the charge sheet was denied. Most Indian courts leave it to the defense attorney to explain to their client what's happening...
India sends out more than 120,000 seafarers and Indian industry has $250 billion worth of merchandise going back and forth through the Suez Canal every year. The route is also critical to India for its energy security. Though no Indian-flagged vessel has been taken hostage lately, India has been on the forefront in dealing with hostage situations off the Somali coast, particularly after the Hong Kong-registered MT Stolt Valor was hijacked in September of last year along with its crew of 22, including 18 Indians. The wife of the ship's Indian captain, Seema Goyal, waged...
...approach worked. The Indian authorities "facilitated" negotiations between the pirates and the ship's owners, and the crew was released for an undisclosed ransom, believed to be much lower than the $6 million the pirates had initially demanded. At the same time, the Indian navy sent a warship, the INS Tabar, to the Gulf of Aden - for the first time deploying a warship in an offensive role in international waters. For close to 20 days, the INS Tabar escorted some 35 ships to safety, including non-Indian-flagged vessels, but it accidentally shot down a hijacked Thai trawler that...