New Delhi: An Indian Air Force officer has filed a complaint of the police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, against the Hong Kong-headquarters shipping company to allegedly lying about the cause of the death of his sailors on one of his ship.
Gyanendra Singh Malik, a Junior Junior official at IAF, told Ti that Anglo-Eastern, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, claimed his son, Shivam Malik, had committed suicide, but Postmortem carried out in India explained “he was killed” .
In a letter to the family, Anglo-Eastern said that “the ship’s staff found the third officer Shivam Malik hung in the thruster arruster room” from MT Shangdone Zihe on October 1 on the way to Gibraltar (overseas British region in the South Spain coastal).
“Shivam Malik was given immediate medical assistance, including CPR.
However, despite the best efforts of the ship’s staff, he could not be revived and the doctor from CMR (who provided medical assistance to seafarers) confirmed that he had died,” the letter stated.
After receiving Shivam’s body in India on October 23, 22 days after his death, Malik, is currently posted at the IAF base at Gijarat’s Gandhinagar, has postmortem carried out by local authorities in Ghaziabad.
Malik told TII that inspection was contrary to the company’s shipping claims.
The autopsy report, a copy with Toi, said, “Hyoid bones and thyroid cartilage broken.
Cracked trachea rings and solid trachea.
The cause of death is asphyxia as a result of the ante-mortem strangulation.” Submitting a police complaint, Malik claimed that “during the call WhatsApp on September 21 last year “, Shivam claimed that he had heard several ship officials who discussed the smuggling of drugs and weapons consignments and faced it when they saw it in Galley.
Toi did several calls to Rejish Chacko, officer welfare, at the Anglo-Eastern Mumbai office but the phone remained unreachable.
In a video posted on social media, Shivam Anchal sister, who runs a marketing company, claims that postmortem examination shows that the criticism of the cause of death.
“There was also a sign of injury on his cheeks and nose and bones near the neck cracked,” he thought.
Anchal describes Shivam as a cheerful boy with plans about marriage and home purchases.
He said that because the family was finished financially, his brother had no reason to end his life.
Sister said that even though the Ministry of External Affairs has helped in accelerating the body’s repatriation, the family wants the Ministry of Trade Union and the Central Government to start a fair investigation in his death.
“We don’t want compensation, only crackdown against the company and guilty officials,” Anchal told Toi.
All India Seafarers Union, who takes the cause of the family, provides all support in “struggle for justice”.
In fact, the president of the work of Union Abhijeet Souble said that trade unions had approached different authorities since Shivam’s death was reported in October to regain his body and now to seek the truth behind his death.