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Demanding the merchandise of 12 fishermen from the Sri Lankan prisons, the families and fishermen relation leaders from Pamban resorted to an agitation present connected Friday.
The agitators said that the Sri Lankan Navy unit had arrested them connected charges of poaching and utilizing banned food nets. Three months had passed since they were sent to jail. The fishermen were languishing successful the prisons and faced hardships.
The families, backmost home, who depended connected their kith and kin were successful depression. The children and elders were facing intelligence issues. At a clip erstwhile the fishermen were faced with livelihood issues, specified humiliation was harsh and terrified the families and the endurance was astatine threat.
The Union authorities should not stay a mute spectator and instrumentality it up with their counterpart successful Sri Lanka. The fishermen should beryllium released forthwith and brought backmost location safely, they urged and demanded the recently elected authorities successful Tamil Nadu to assistance them successful this hr of crisis.
As the accusation was communicated, State Minister For Environment V K Rajeev spoke to the representatives implicit telephone from Chennai. According to a property merchandise from the District Collectorate, the curate had assured the fishermen that helium would convey their grievances to the Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay. The authorities would basal with the fishermen assemblage and instrumentality each steps to reconstruct bid successful their families, helium added.
The Union authorities would beryllium briefed astir the issues faced by the fishermen successful the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, a elder fisheries section authoritative said and added that they had prepared details from the mechanised and state vessel fishermen.
