Mumbai, July 28 -- Forty-four Somali nationals, who were recently sentenced to life imprisonment by a Mumbai special court in a piracy case, have moved Indian and Somali authorities seeking transfer to their home country to serve the remainder of their sentences under the India-Somalia Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, 2017 legal aourcess said here on Tuesday.
Sources said the representations were submitted a day after the conviction to the union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Embassy of Somalia in India and the competent authorities in Somalia.
The convicts, who are currently lodged in Taloja Central Jail, filed the applications through advocates Samyak Gimekar, Chief of the Mumb...