March 29, 2024 19:39 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
PM Modi to kickstart BJP's Lok Sabha poll campaign from Meerut | Kangana Ranaut in Mandi: 'Don't think I am a heroine, consider me as your sister and daughter' | Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav demand high-level probe into Mukhtar Ansari's death | PM Modi has mastered art of manipulating democracy, hurting Constitution: Mallikarjun Kharge | Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest at 63

South Korea: Ferry captain gets 36-year jail term

India Blooms News Service | | 11 Nov 2014, 09:06 pm
Seoul, Nov 11 (IBNS): A South Korean court on Tuesday sentenced the captain of the sunken ferry Sewol to 36 years in prison for abandoning the passengers which were traveling in it when it was sinking in April this year.

 The court acquitted the captain Lee Joon-seok of charges that he murdered 304 passengers during the mishap.

"The Gwangju District Court in this southern city convicted the 68-year-old skipper of gross negligence and dereliction of duty, including abandoning his ship while the passengers, most of them high school students on a school trip, remained trapped inside the ship," Yonhap news agency reported.

"Captain Lee ordered the second mate to tell passengers to get off the ship when the patrol ship was about to arrive at the scene," judge Lim Jung-yeob said in his ruling as quoted by the news agency.

"It is hard to conclude that the captain's act eventually led to the death of the passengers just based on the evidence submitted by the prosecution,"  Lim Jung-yeob said.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.