Captain Rakesh Ranjan ****d on board a merchant vessel carrying oil near the Strait of Hormuz, his family said on Friday, urging the Centre and the Jharkhand government to help bring back his body.
Ranchi-based Ranjan (43) had joined the vessel, 'ASP Avana- RPSL-MUM-172', owned by a private company, on February 2.
According to his family, Ranjan ****d on March 18, allegedly because of a cardiac arrest.
They claimed the ship had been stranded about 14 nautical miles off the Strait of Hormuz since February 28 after movement was halted in the region because of the West Asia conflict.