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160 sea pirates languishing in Indian prisons: Navy
Updated On: 03 December, 2013 10:27 AM IST | | Agencies
Some 160 sea pirates, arrested by the Indian Navy in the Gulf of Aden, were languishing in Indian prisons as the governments of their native countries were not ready to take them back, a senior naval officer said today
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"We don't know what to do with the arrested pirates from Gulf of Aden. Countries like Seychelles, Kenya and others have refused to take them back, as their prisons are full. There are some 160 such pirates in our prisons," Commodore Amar K Mahadevan, Naval Officer In-Charge (Tamil Nadu and Puducherry) told reporters here.

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