TN Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa wrote to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding concrete action for the immediate release of four fishermen apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy and 84 fishing boats in the custody of the neighbouring country.
In a letter to Modi, the Chief Minister said that four fishermen in a mechanised fishing boat, who set off from Rameswaram fishing base of Ramanathapuram District, have been apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy in the early hours of (April 5) and taken to Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
“It is very unfortunate that the Sri Lankan authorities continue the trend of apprehension and prolonged incarceration of our fishermen. Long periods of incarceration of our fishermen in the Sri Lankan Jails is subjecting them and their families back home to untold misery and hardship,” she wrote.
-NIE
-Agencies
