Sunday, October 11, 2015

19 Indian Fishermen Remanded In Custody

Nineteen Indian anglers captured by Sri Lankan Navy for purportedly angling in Lankan waters were remanded in care till October 23.

The Point Pedro's Acting Magistrate issued their remand orders after they were displayed before him Saturday morning.

The 19 anglers were captured the previous evening and their two trawlers were additionally seized off the shore of Point Pedro in the north by the Sri Lankan Navy.
They were given over to the Department's authorities of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources for further examinations, the naval force said.





Anglers damaging one another's regional waters has turned into a prickly issue in the Indo-Lanka relations and Sri Lankan parliament has faced off regarding the issue just yesterday.

Vijitha Herath, the resistance JVP parliamentarian who moved the intermission time verbal confrontation said that illicit angling by Indians was a risk to Sri Lanka's sway and the powers must apply strict laws, for example, to seize Indian water crafts doing unlawful angling.

The legislators likewise suggesteed joint maritime watches to keep anglers from poaching in every others' waters.

The naval force had on September 22 captured 15 Indian anglers for supposedly angling in Lankan waters. In another episode around the same time, the naval force work force likewise pursued a gathering of anglers at weapon point close Katchatheevu in Palk Staits other than harming nets of more than 60 vessels.

Sri Lanka blames Indian anglers for straying into their regional waters, while the recent keep up they are just angling in their customary regions, particularly around Katchatheevu, an islet surrendered to Colombo in 1974