Shimla, July 21 -- A month after his only son was killed in a US strike on a on a commercial ship near the Strait of Hormuz, Rajesh Sharma, on Monday met Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and urged him to raise the matter with the central government, alleging that no action has been taken in the incident.

Aditya Sharma, 23, a merchant navy cadet from Himachal's Hamirpur district, was killed after the US military struck Palau-flagged MT Settebello near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman on June 10.

Sharma, a resident of Hamirpur district, had joined the Merchant Navy as a deck cadet in November 2025 after completing his nautical studies.

"Our son was on an unarmed civilian commercial ship. He had nothing to do...