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Chief Minister N. Rangasamy has written to S. Jaishankar, Union Minister for External Affairs, seeking expeditious measures to unafraid the merchandise of the 12 Tamil fishermen, including 10 from Karaikal, who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Coast Guard connected charges of poaching successful the island-nation’s territorial waters.
The letter, that contained details of each the fishermen -- 10 from the Karaikal portion and 2 from Tamil Nadu (Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai), urged the Minister to instrumentality due steps connected precedence with the Government of Sri Lanka for merchandise of the supra said captured vessel and fishermen.
The fishermen from Karaikal hailed from Kottucherrymedu, Akkampettai, Thalatheru and Pattinacherry.
Leader of Opposition and DMK convenor R. Siva condemed the arrest, allegedly astatine gunpoint, of the fishermen and seizure of their vessels portion engaged successful sportfishing activities. The continued harassment of Tamil fishermen astatine the hands of the Sri Lankan authorities threatened to deprive the Karaikal fishermen assemblage of livelihood rights.
He urged the Union and State Governments to instantly intervene successful this substance and instrumentality steps to merchandise the arrested fishermen and their boats.
While calling for diplomatic engagement with the Sri Lankan authorities to guarantee extortion for the lives and spot of the fishermen, the DMK person besides appealed for providing Naval information for sportfishing vessels.
