The Vice -President of the Prosecution of the Ministries and Public Authorities stated that the second minor criminal court issued its ruling on a session on Thursday 27 March 2025 in two cases imprisoning seven accused, two Bahrainis, and the rest hold Indian citizenship for ten days, one of whom was fined fifty dinars, and the permanent removal of the Indian defendants from the Kingdom of Bahrain after the implementation of the punishment, as well as the confiscation of boats, the banned fishing tools, the value of the seizures, the value of the seizures, For their shrimp hunting during the ban on using – the beaning traction window – (Kufa).
The Public Prosecution had received two reports during the month of March of this year from the Coast Guard Command that included the first monitoring of a boat on board four people with Indian citizenship suspected of practicing Al -Royyan during the ban, and if the security patrol approached the boat to seek his order, the defendants tried Durable hunting tools – bell -on -piston window – (Kufa), as it was found that safety tools were not available on the boat.
While the second communication included the monitoring of the Coast Guard forces, a boat with two people, one of whom is Bahraini and the other of Indian nationality, when they visited the security patrol, they tried to escape, but they were pursued, seized and the boat, and it was found that they possessed banned hunting tools – the ritual traction windows – (Kufa), and a large amount of shrimp of 32.72 kilograms of small shrimp.
Immediately after the reporters received, the Public Prosecution began its investigations, and the accused in the communications were interrogated, and accusations were charged with the shrimp hunting during the ban and possession period and the use of hunting tools that are prohibited from fishing, and the security men were prevented from controlling and inspection, and the lack of safety tools “survival jacket and the first aid fund and fire extinguishing”, as well And the lack of operation of the automatic identification device and the non -operation of the navigational lights to prevent collision, and the investigations show that the defendants in the first communication committed the crimes against them in conjunction with the owner of the boat (Bahraini), and the accused approved each of the accusations attributed to him.
The Public Prosecution ordered the imprisonment of the defendants in the two cases in reserve for a period of seven days, pending the investigation and the seizure of the boat and the seized fishing tools, and referred them to the minor criminal court that ruled at the March 27, 2025 session by ruling the previous statement.
