Ministry of External Affairs Additional Secretary (Americas) Nagaraj Naidu called in the US Charges d’Affaires Jason Meeks to lodge the protest. The move comes after another commercial vessel with 20 Indian crew members on board came under attack on Thursday.

A Bengaluru advocate and her live-in partner have been arrested for the alleged murder of her five-year-old daughter. Police are investigating the motive behind the crime and examining conflicting accounts of the child’s death.

Harsha Sunny was flying down from Bangkok and was stopped at the Mumbai airport as officials found her behaviour suspicious during routine surveillance. Customs officials said that Sunny arrived at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Thursday on an Air India flight.