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Parents of missing man knock Defence Minister's door

April 2, 2011
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Kasargod, April 2: Parents of a man from Kasaragod who went missing since two years have requested Union Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday to find the whereabouts of their son.



Pradip Raj (26) a sailor onboard a merchant vessel, is missing from the ship bound to China from the United States since April 2009.



The parents met AK Antony at guest house in the morning.



Nagesh Chettiyar, father of Pradip Raj said that authorities of Marlow Navigation, for which Pradeep Raj was working, had sent a telegram to him at Kudlu near Kasaragod on May 1, stating that Raj was missing from the merchant vessel Eltanin.



The ship had left the United States on April 6, 2009.



Sridhar, Raj's uncle, who resides at Kodical in Mangalore, said that Raj had spoken to his parents over phone on April 24, 2009. He had told his parents that the ship would reach China on May 13.



The company sent another telegram to Chettiyar on May 2 stating that a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft had conducted a search for Raj and the operation would continue. However there was no positive result, he said.



AK Antony said that he would conduct search operation for missing Pradip Raj with special agencies.





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