New Delhi [India], November 13 (ANI): An emergency journey certificates has been issued to Akshay Harish, an Indian seafarer from Keralam stranded at Chabahar Port in Iran, paving the best way for his earliest potential return house, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal confirmed on Friday.
Akshay Harish, a younger seafarer and native of Prakkulam in Kollam, has been left stranded in Iran and not using a passport or journey paperwork following a sequence of disruptions involving his delivery vessel, regional battle, and lacking paperwork.
Addressing issues over his security, Jaiswal stated the Indian Embassy in Tehran and the Consulate in Bandar Abbas intervened instantly after Harish contacted the mission on November 9.
‘The well-being and security of our Indian seafarers are of excessive significance to us. Our mission in Tehran and our consulate in Bandar Abbas have already reached out to Akshay Harish, a seafarer,’ Jaiswal stated throughout a media briefing.
Recounting the sequence of occasions following conversations between consular officers and Harish, the MEA spokesperson defined that the sailor had boarded a service provider vessel named Plam Marine in Japan in 2025.
He added that upon reaching Chabahar Port, the ship’s captain knowledgeable him that his passport and Continuous Discharge Certificate (CDC), a compulsory doc for mariners, had been misplaced, resulting in his disembarkation from the vessel.
‘We additionally bought to know that Akshay is receiving help from his firm. They’re taking good care of his boarding and lodging. After the decision, we bought in contact with the proprietor of the ship and the agent, and we gave them the main points of the formalities to be accomplished for his documentation,’ Jaiswal said.
Following the completion of required formalities, Indian authorities issued an emergency certificates to facilitate his repatriation.
‘Accordingly, he utilized for an emergency certificates, and that emergency certificates has now been issued to Akshay. With that, he’s now able to journey again house. And we’re making all efforts in order that he can return house, return to India, to Keralam, as early as potential. In this regard, we’re in shut contact along with his employer,’ the MEA spokesperson added.
Akshay joined the delivery firm on December 5, 2025, via a recruiting company primarily based in Palakkad, initially boarding a ship from Japan. According to his household, he had anticipated a brief 35-day stint with out connectivity. However, upon reaching an Iranian port after roughly 35-36 days, the crew ready for his or her first sail towards Dubai-coinciding exactly with the eruption of conflict in Iran.
While their first journey to Pakistan for transporting rice went easily, the second voyage bumped into extreme authorized and administrative roadblocks. Pakistani port authorities confiscated the passports and Continuous Discharge Certificates (CDCs) of the cabin crew, chief engineer, and captain, citing points with the captain’s certificates and imposing heavy fines.
While the Iranian captain and chief engineer departed with out subject, and 6 Myanmar nationals aboard the vessel had been ultimately repatriated by way of their embassy, Akshay was left behind, confined to a room in Chabahar. Matters peaked when his companions left, leaving him solely remoted.
In a determined plea to his household, Akshay known as in tears, ‘Mother, all of them have left and I’m on their own now. My paperwork hasn’t been cleared but, and it looks as if it would take months… Mother, please save me one way or the other, inform somebody to assist me.’
Reflecting on the terrifying moments, Akshay’s mom recalled his misery, ‘He was crying on the cellphone as he stated, ‘Mother, I do not know what to do; we’re heading in the direction of Bandar Lengeh.’ After that, he did not name for about two months… [Later], because the conflict intensified additional, they could not journey from Iran to Dubai or Oman, in order that they set sail from Iran to Pakistan.’
Faced with the upcoming risk of her son being stranded indefinitely, Akshay’s mom approached native and nationwide leaders for pressing intervention. MLA and Minister Bindu Krishna stepped into the matter, writing on to the Chief Minister VD Satheesan, the Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Kerala’s Special Representative in Delhi, and the Indian Embassy in Iran.Â
Complaints had been additionally submitted to MP Kodikunnil Suresh and Union Minister Suresh Gopi. Following concerted efforts by Union Minister Suresh Gopi, Minister Bindu Krishna, and G. Devarajan, the diplomatic channels swung into motion. The case has been formally taken up with the Iranian Ambassador, and officers from the Indian Embassy are slated to fulfill Akshay in particular person to subject non permanent journey paperwork. (ANI)