India, April 8 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the deputy director general (DG), Shipping to collect the mortal remains of a Kandivali-based seafarer Dixit Solanki, who died in a suspected missile or drone attack on the oil tanker MT MKD Vyom in the Gulf of Oman, and send them to a forensic science laboratory (FSL) for DNA verification.

A bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Gautam Ankhad directed the deputy DG Shipping to collect the remains of the deceased seafarer from the mortuary of John Pinto International in Byculla, in the presence his family members, and send them to the FSL in Kalina and the central FSL in Hyderabad for DNA verification. "The copy of the report shall be supplied to the family as ...