Woman falls to her death off cruise liner

Mumbai: After 24 hours of frantic communication between co-founder of Goila Butter Chicken, Vivek Sahani, and his Melbourne-based businessman brother Apoorv, with authorities of a cruise liner, where their parents were holidaying, and the Ministry of External Affairs it emerged that their mother who had “gone missing” onboard had actually died. The Sahani brothers took to social media platforms on Monday seeking help from Indian authorities as soon as they received news from the cruise staff on Monday that their mother had jumped off the liner. Their posts suggested that Reeta Sahani, 64, was sailing with her husband Jakesh Sahani, 67, on the Singapore-based cruise liner Spectrum of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises. Is this even humane?” At around 11 am on Tuesday, Vivek shared on his Instagram page: “Royal Caribbean questioned my dad for hours but refused to actually show us or give proof as to what happened to my mom or fully search for her on the liner or did proper rescue operation.” The couple were on a four-day cruise, and on their way back to Singapore from Penang aboard the cruise liner, reported Singapore daily ‘The Straits Times’ on Monday evening, Singapore time. We are also in close contact with Singaporean authorities to address related issues and are facilitating legal procedures.” The cruise liner’s spokesperson responded to this newspaper’s email query, stating that a “guest went overboard on Spectrum of the Seas and the crew immediately reported the incident to local authorities and launched a search and rescue operation.