{"id":458843,"date":"2021-12-28T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458843"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T07:37:52","slug":"ship-captain-sentenced-to-20-months-jail-over-mauritius-oil-spill-magistrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ship-captain-sentenced-to-20-months-jail-over-mauritius-oil-spill-magistrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship captain sentenced to 20 months&#8217; jail over Mauritius oil spill: magistrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, unleashing the Indian Ocean archipelago&#8217;s worst environmental disaster, were sentenced on Monday to 20 months&#8217; jail. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The court took into consideration the fact that both defendants pleaded guilty and apologised. The sentence handed down is 20 months in prison,&#8221; said magistrate Ida Dookhy Rambarrun. <\/p>\n<p>The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned but Panamanian-flagged vessel, ran aground in July 2020, spilling more than 1,000 tonnes of toxic fuel into pristine waters, coating mangroves, corals and other fragile ecosystems. <\/p>\n<p>The vessel&#8217;s captain, Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, who was convicted by a court in the capital Port Louis last week, admitted drinking during an onboard birthday party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, unleashing the Indian Ocean archipelago&#8217;s worst environmental disaster, were sentenced on Monday to 20 months&#8217; jail. &#8220;The court took into consideration the fact that both defendants pleaded guilty and apologised. The sentence handed down is 20 months in prison,&#8221; said magistrate Ida Dookhy Rambarrun. The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned but Panamanian-flagged vessel, ran aground in July 2020, spilling more than 1,000 tonnes of toxic fuel into pristine waters, coating mangroves, corals and other fragile ecosystems. The vessel&#8217;s captain, Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, who was convicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}