A second said it could be more than 200, with the remaining passengers coming from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. One officer from Kerala investigating the case said around 100 people were on board. Precise numbers on the boat - and who organised it - are unknown. Their local police station in the capital had not received any missing persons’ reports. They appear to have boarded the boat willingly, said a senior police official in Delhi briefed on the investigation. They checked into guesthouses near Munambam, a busy fishing port. Passengers from Delhi left the capital in stages in December and early January. It the first known attempt by migrants to reach New Zealand by boat from India, and their story is a reminder of the vast challenge the country faces to create jobs for the 1 million young people who enter its workforce every month.īoats have been setting out from South and Southeast Asia for Australia for a number of years but Indians making the trip have been relatively rare, based on Australian government statistics that show the largest numbers detained there to be asylum seekers from Iran and Afghanistan. When asked if she knew where the country was, she shook her head. “They have been promised work in New Zealand.” “They had to leave to find jobs, to eat,” said Prabhu’s mother, Sugana. More than a dozen relatives of passengers on board the boat, that include pregnant women and young children, told Reuters they left to escape chronic unemployment in the Madangir area on the south side of New Delhi. The most likely and shortest route, though the straits between Indonesia and Australia, passes through seas where storms and typhoons are common. He is now in custody in southern India, while his wife and daughter are missing, along with everyone else who boarded the fishing boat that police say left Munambam harbour in Kerala on Jan. Prabhu, 30, was one of around 50 residents of a refugee community in New Delhi who left the capital to attempt an 7,000-mile boat journey through some of the roughest waters in the world with the aim of landing illegally in New Zealand, relatives and police said. Sugana, mother of Prabhu Dhandapani who was detained by police on the suspicion of being involved in illegally sending people to New Zealand on a boat, looks on inside her house in New Delhi, India, January 23, 2019.
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