Independent Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has requested the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to consider sympathetically the demand of compensation to the relatives of four crew members of fishing boat Kuber, which had been hijacked by Ajmal Kasab and his companions.

Kasab and other nine Pakistani terrorists seized Kuber to reach the vicinity of Mumbai coast before launching the deadly terrorist attack on India's financial capital on November 26, 2008.

While the beheaded body of Amarsinh Solanki, Kuber's captain, was found in the abandoned boat, bodies of other four fishermen, namely, Ramesh Nagji Bamaniya from Simasi village in Una taluka of Junagadh, Balwant Prabhu, Mukesh Rathod and Nathu Nanu from Vasi Borsi village of Navsari district, were not found.

The Maharashtra government paid compensation to Solanki's family; it should also provide compensation to families of four other crew members, treating them on par with other victims of the attack, Nathwani has said in a letter to the Prime Minister.