Navy releases 94 Indian fishermen
Posted by Editor on October 17, 2014 - 12:42 pm
Navy has handed over 94 Tamil Nadu fishermen taken into custody by them to the Indian Coast Guard at the International Maritime Boundary Line.
Zee news reported that the fishermen, belonging to Ramanathapuram, Nagapattinam and Pudukottai districts, were taken into custody by the navy last month on charges of violating IMBL.
Sri Lanka has released 225 Indian fishermen since the Narendra Modi government took over in May this year. The 94 fishermen were the fresh batch released by the island nation.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had last month wrote to Prime Minister Modi urging him to take immediate steps to get the 94 fishermen released along with 62 boats that were confiscated by the Lankan navy.
(Ada Derana)
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This is utterly ridiculous! Our leaders have no backbone to stand up to Modi and say, ‘enough is enough’. The kallathoni Tamils from TN are ruining our fishing grounds with their trawlers and illegal methods of fishing, now that they have ruined their own waters. When is the President going to wake up to this and defend our territorial waters?