Admiral Nirmal Verma, the head of India’s Navy, warned that pirates could begin forging ties with terrorist organizations which had “cancerous potential”; Verma’s remarks come as part of a U.S. Naval War College Symposium held in Newport, Rhode Island; Verma also said that it was critical to begin effectively sentencing captured pirates rather than just releasing them; “It is estimated that nine out of 10 apprehended pirates benefit from the ‘catch and release’ policy followed by most navies till now,” he said; India has yet to prosecute the more than 100 pirates that its Navy has captured