The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government to pay by October 25 a compensation of R5 lakh to the widow of a crew member of fishing trawler ‘MV Kuber,’ that was hijacked by terrorists who carried out the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Justice B N Karia, in his interim order passed on Tuesday, directed the government to pay R5 lakh to Jashiben, whose husband Rameshbhai Bambhania and four other fishermen were killed on MV Kuber in 2008 by Ajmal Kasab and other Pakistani terrorists, who hijacked the trawler in the Arabian Sea and used it to reach Mumbai. The body of MV Kuber’s captain, Amarsinh Solanki, was found on the boat, while bodies of four others, including Bambhania, were missing.