Coast Guard's DIG BK Loshali dismissed for 'blow up Pak boat' remarks

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• The Coast Guard officer who had claimed that he ordered the blowing up of a Pakistani boat on the night of 31 December 2014 has been dismissed.

• DIG BK Loshali was dismissed by the Indian Coast Guard Board of Inquiry after the completion of the court martial proceedings against him.

The Indian Express released a video of Loshali taking responsibility for the incident. Here's what he had then said:

"I hope you remember 31st December night. we blew off that Pakistan. We have blown them off. I was there at Gandhinagar and I told at night, blow the boat off. We don't want to serve them biryani."

• This was in contradiction to the Defence Ministry's stand that the boat had blown itself up on its own.

• The government's stand has been that the boat's crew set it on fire 365 miles off Porbandar after an hour-long chase by a Coast Guard ship .

• The Pakistani vessel was suspected to be carrying terrorists. It was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard off Porbandar coast on New Year's Eve.