By IANS - CHENNAI
03rd July 2013 04:38
PM
Forty-nine Indian
fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan navy June 5 have been released and will
return home in a couple of days, the Tamil Nadu government said Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu officials
took up their issue with the Indian high commission in Colombo on the orders of
Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, an official statement said.
Sri Lankan
authorities Tuesday released 24 fishermen and the others Wednesday.
The Sri Lankan navy
routinely arrests Indian fishermen, dominantly from Tamil Nadu, on charges of
intruding into Sri Lankan waters.
There have also been
clashes between Sri Lankan Tamil and Tamil Nadu fishermen in the sea that
divides the two countries.
