Sri lankan naval force captures 49 Tamil anglers; TN CM keeps in touch with PM

Chennai, Aug 8 The Sri Lankan Navy has captured 49 fishermen from Tamil Nadu subsequent to terminating noticeable all around, inciting Chief Minister K Palaniswami to shoot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressing that the activity was "absolutely inadmissible".

In the letter to Modi, Palaniswami affirmed that in a progression of episodes that occurred yesterday, "the Sri Lankan Navy threatened Tamil Nadu fishermen by ramming the boats with armoured naval vessels and captured 49 fishermen in 12 fishing boats".

The captured fishermen, having a place with Pudukottai and Jagadapattinam regions, were taken to Kangesanthurai by the naval force faculty, Fisheries Assistant Director Shivakumar told.

The Sri Lankan Navy's totally ridiculous show of military may against poor, blameless anglers smashing their shaky water crafts with maritime vessels and imperiling lives of non-warrior is "absolutely unsatisfactory", he said.

The anxiety of fishermen "as once huge mob" has come as an "inconsiderate stun" when the procedure of transformation of trawling water crafts to long-liners was kick-begun at Rameswaram as of late, Palaniswami said.

The assault and fears unmistakably point to the inadequate respect on the Sri Lankan side for the endeavors by the administrations of India and Tamil Nadu in settling the angling issue "gently", he said.

Reviewing his prior demand that a "solid political hostile" ought to be propelled to keep the repeat of such occurrences, Palaniswami asked Modi to think about up the issue literally with the most elevated experts in the Island Nation.

"I likewise ask for you to guide the Ministry of External Affairs to secure the quick arrival of 113 fishermen alongside 137 water crafts from the Sri Lankan Navy alongside the most recent fishermen who were captured," he included.