Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia to take urgent steps to search and rescue, P Nevil, one of the three Indian fishermen who went missing after their boat capsized. Nevil, along with two Indian fishermen, J George, and V Joseph, from the coastal villages of Kanyakumari and a Saudi national, went for fishing from the Darin fishing base in Saudi Arabia on March 17. The fishermen were working in Saudi Arabia on contract basis. While doing fishing operations in a fishing vessel owned by a Saudi Arabian owner, they met with an accident the following day. While bodies of George and Joseph were recovered, the search was on for Nevil. “I request you to kindly direct the Indian embassy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to take urgent steps to arrange for necessary search and rescue operations and transportation of the mortal remains of the deceased,” Palaniswami said in a letter to Modi. The CM requested Modi to direct the Indian embassy to take up this matter with the employer concerned and ensure that the monetary benefits due to all the three fishermen are released to their families without any delay. Assistant director of fisheries in Nagercoil, Rubert Jothi said, “Efforts are being taken to bring their bodies fishermen back to their native village.”