HC holds midnight sitting, orders arrest of vessel
The Hindu
Admiralty suit filed by water supplier
For the first time, the Kerala High Court held a sitting online at 11.30 p.m. on Monday and ordered the arrest of a bulk carrier archored in the Kochi waters, which had refused to pay the amount due to a water supplier.
Justice Devan Ramachandran, during the hearing, which continued into midnight, directed the Registrar General of the High Court to issue an order for arresting M.V. Ocean Rose, along withher hull, engines, machinery, boats, bunkers, and other equipment, which was anchored in the territorial waters under the Cochin Port and also directed the Deputy Conservator of the Cochin Port to effect the arrest or seizure of the vessel.
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