New Delhi: Two days after the death of his 11-month old son, a court in West African nation Togo Thursday heard the sixth release application filed by the family of imprisoned Merchant Navy captain Sunil James.
The family has appealed to the court to release Sunil on humanitarian grounds to travel to Mumbai for his son's funeral.
For the family of Sunil James, a 36-year-old merchant ship captain, it's been one tragedy after another.
In July this year his ship was attacked near Togo in Western Africa. But days later, James was detained and arrested on charges of aiding the pirates.
Now, Vivaan, his 11-month-old baby has died in a Mumbai hospital and all that his wife Aditi wants is for her husband to return and see his little one for one last time.
Vivaan was operated upon for intestinal gangrene but the infection spread into his bloodstream and he died of septicemia on December 2.
The body has been preserved in the morgue of Cooper Hospital in Andheri (West).
Following Vivaan's death, there had been a flurry of communication from the Indian government, the company that owns the ship and crew management company that Sunil is contracted to.
