EK Nandakumar, senior counsel and senior partner at Kochi-based Menon & Pai, and Thushara James, a Kochi-based lawyer, represented 23 foreign nationals who were recently acquitted of charges under the Arms Act, 1959, by a single judge of Madras High Court.
Twelve Indians involved in the case were also acquitted. They were represented by T Mohan, a Chennai-based lawyer.
The foreign nationals – six Britons, 14 Estonians and three Ukrainians – and the Indians had been onboard the anti-piracy vessel MV Seaman Guard Ohio which was found to have illegally entered Indian waters with a cache of arms and ammunition in October 2013.
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