Asserting that Indian Mission in Accra was overseeing the developments in the case, spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said an official from the Mission has travelled to Togo to approach the judge and make a plea on "compassionate ground" in this "heart-wrenching" incident.
Captain Sunil James is under arrest in west African country Togo since July on the charge of aiding pirates who had attacked and looted his Marshall Islands-flagged MT Ocean Centurion on July 16.
According to reports, the sailor's 31-year-old wife Aditi and others in the family want James to conduct the last rites of his son whose body is lying in a hospital morgue since the toddler's death from septicaemia on December 2.
It was reported that the infant, Vivaan, underwent an operation for intestinal gangrene but doctors could not save him as the infection had spread to his bloodstream.