
Since deployment, INS Tabar has successfully escorted 35 ships, including a number of foreign-flagged vessels on receiving their request, safely during their transit through pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden.
It also threw back pirates, who attempted to hijack an Indian and a Saudi vessels on November 11 and accompanied the two merchant ships to safety.
The Indian action against pirates comes days after the release after the Japanese ship M V Stolt Valor with 18 Indian crew members hijacked from Gulf of Aden by Somalian pirates on September 15.