<p>India was contemplating utilising services of armed guards from Para Military force for security duty on board merchant vessels, Union Shipping Secretary K Mohandas said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A decision in this regard was likely to be taken soon, he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.<br /><br />No ships with armed guards has been taken hostage, he said.<br /><br />Several vessels, flying Indian flags, were presently relying on security agencies employing foreign nationals in piracy infested waters, Mohandas said.<br /><br />Inquiry by Mercantile Marine Department on the shooting of two Indian fishermen by Italian naval guards off Kerala coast would be completed in two weeks, he said.<br />India's stand in the shooting would be made before court of law, he said, adding, this was not the right time to comment about the incident.<br /><br />Director General of Shipping S B Agnihotri said there were also plans to move vessels through the Gulf of Eden in convoys.<br /><br />With incidents of piracy in Indian waters decreasing, India would make a fresh bid to file appeal before the London based Joint War Committee, a body of Insurance under writers, to exclude the country's exclusive economic zone from the war zone notification.</p>
<p>India was contemplating utilising services of armed guards from Para Military force for security duty on board merchant vessels, Union Shipping Secretary K Mohandas said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A decision in this regard was likely to be taken soon, he told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.<br /><br />No ships with armed guards has been taken hostage, he said.<br /><br />Several vessels, flying Indian flags, were presently relying on security agencies employing foreign nationals in piracy infested waters, Mohandas said.<br /><br />Inquiry by Mercantile Marine Department on the shooting of two Indian fishermen by Italian naval guards off Kerala coast would be completed in two weeks, he said.<br />India's stand in the shooting would be made before court of law, he said, adding, this was not the right time to comment about the incident.<br /><br />Director General of Shipping S B Agnihotri said there were also plans to move vessels through the Gulf of Eden in convoys.<br /><br />With incidents of piracy in Indian waters decreasing, India would make a fresh bid to file appeal before the London based Joint War Committee, a body of Insurance under writers, to exclude the country's exclusive economic zone from the war zone notification.</p>