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AHMEDABAD: A senior officer with the Coast Guard who bragged that he had ordered a Pakistani fishing boat to be blown up on New Year's Eve will be investigated, said Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today, after a video of the controversial statements was released by The Indian Express.
On camera, the officer says, "I hope you remember the 31st December night. We blew off the Pakistan...we blew them off." Deputy Inspector General BK Loshali, who is in uniform, goes on to say, "I was there at Gandhinagar and I told at night 'blow the boat off...we don't want to serve them biryani'."
"The Defence Ministry had given a very clear statement. We stand by it," Mr Parrikar said today, adding that he will examine the video featuring the Coast Guard officer and "take action if required".
On January 1, the government said that a fishing boat with explosives had set sail from near Karachi and had been flagged as suspicious by intelligence agencies. The government said the crew was planning an illicit transaction" in the Arabian Sea when it was intercepted. The government statement did not elaborate on the type of explosives or who they were intended for. The Indian Coast Guard chased the Pakistani boat for almost an hour and fired warning shots before it stopped, and the crew then hid below deck and then set the boat on fire, the government had claimed.
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