The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of 50 crew members stranded on three vessels in the Arabian Sea, who described themselves as “victims of a high-seas humanitarian crisis”, observing that “for them life comes only once”. The seafarers, all Indians, expressed their desire not to return to the vessels. The petitioners and other crew members, who had filed a habeas corpus plea, belonged to three motor tankers named MT Asphalt Star, MT Stellar Ruby, and MT Al Jafzia, placed under arrest for illegal fuel oil and bitumen transfers. Only one of the 50 was named an accused in the case. The petitioners, represented through the Maharashtra Navnirman Navin Sena Union, claimed they were stranded inside the vessels since February 9, and the owners had “practically abandoned” the ships as well as deserted the crew in the Arabian Sea.…