A younger Indian deck cadet, working with a Mumbai-based service provider transport firm, has been reported lacking since Friday night time.

22-year-old Pranav Karad went lacking when he was deployed on a tanker travelling between Singapore and Indonesia, in line with The Indian Express. Pranav’s household, who’re residents of Pune’s Warje space, are looking for assist from the Indian authorities, the newspaper mentioned.

Employed by Mumbai-based Wilhelmsen Ship Management India for six months, Karad’s whereabouts stay unknown because the firm notified his household. Pranav’s father, Gopal Karad, a Pune-based driver mentioned his son had accomplished a course in nautical sciences from MIT, Pune, and was working with Wilhelmsen Ship Management.

He mentioned that the household was making an attempt to strategy the police in Pune and Mumbai and different authorities to assist them attain the Prime Minister’s Office and exterior affairs and transport ministries. “He was deployed as a deck cadet on the Resolve II vessel. On Thursday, we obtained a name and later an electronic mail on Friday from the ship authorities saying Pranav was lacking from the ship when it was between Singapore and Indonesia,” Gopal Karad mentioned.

“The company is telling us that the search is on but nothing more about how he went missing. We spoke to him on a WhatsApp call on Thursday. The company is not providing any contacts of others serving with him.”