what made young narendra stay back and help the British sailor
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British Prime Minister David Cameron recently asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's help to send back six British sailors who have been in Tamil Nadu for two years.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com reports from Tuticorin on this unusual case.
On October 12, 2013, an American ship, the MV Seaman Guard Ohio was detained by the Indian Coast Guard off Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
The ship was found to be carrying 31 assault rifles and 5,000 rounds of ammunition. There were 25 security guards on board the ship along with 10 support staff.
The crew -- which included six British nationals, 14 Estonians, one Ukranian and Indians -- were arrested by the Tamil Nadu police's 'Q' branch, which handles intelligence cases.
Two cases were filed against the crew: One under the Arms Act for carrying weapons in Indian territory without a license and the other under the Essential Commodities Act for buying 1,500 litres of diesel illegally.
The ship is registered in Sierra Leone and belongs to an American company Advanfort, owned by a Palestinian, Dubai-based, businessman named Samir Farajallah.
The Arms Act case was quashed by the Madras high court, but this was challenged by the Tamil Nadu government in the Supreme Court, which ordered a re-trial in the Tuticorin district court.
British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month, asking for his help to send back the six British sailors who have been in Tamil Nadu for the past two years. They cannot leave India as their passports have been confiscated.
The British sailors are out on bail and their lawyer in Tuticorin, R Subramaniya Aditan, a former district Congress