Madurai: The coast guards present at International Maritime Border Line deported former Vice-President of Maldives Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor to Maldives. Ghafoor on Thursday had entered the Indian coastline without permission with nine others on a tugboat.
Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor was the Vice president of Maldives until he was taken into custody for assassinating the then president of Maldives Abdulla Yameen by blasting a bomb on his speed boat. He was arrested and sent to imprisonment for 15 years on 2016. But his sentence was squashed in 2019, May.
In the early hours of Saturday, Adeeb was taken back to International Maritime border line by the coastguards and was given to the Maldives security personnel. The crew members included one Indian and 8 Indonesian people.
The tugboat was denied permission to enter the Indian Maritime coastline on Thursday to dock at Tuticorin Port in Tamil Nadu. Officials came to know the presence of Abdul Ghafoor on the tugboat and hence tugboat was anchored few nautical miles from the port. The officials questioned him and the others till Friday and was then was deported from India.
The Maldivian officials will conduct inquiries with them to find out how Adeeb escape the country and will punish him and the others who were involved with him.
