In a letter to Modi, she wrote, "I also request you to impress upon the Sri Lankan government that they should abandon their inhuman strategy of impounding the boats and fishing gear for an extended period of time."
Jayalalithaa sent the letter after 50 fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy in the wee hours of Tuesday. "The fishermen had set out for fishing from the Nagapattinam fishing base of Nagapattinam district and were apprehended by the Sri Lankan navy in the early hours of July 29 and taken to Kankesanthurai in Sri Lanka," she said in the letter.
Jayalalithaa also recalled her previous letter to Modi (sent on July 22). "I had informed you about the apprehension of nine boats and 43 fishermen from Tamil Nadu. I wish to inform you that these 43 fishermen and their nine boats have not yet been released," she pointed out.
The chief minister also appreciated the Modi government saying his government had acted promptly on earlier occasions which led to the release of 225 apprehended fishermen from the Sri Lankan custody. "However, as part of a deliberate and callous design, the Sri Lankan side is yet to release the 55 boats and fishing gear which were impounded from Tamil Nadu fishermen apprehended earlier," she said.
She said the poor fishermen had lost their means of livelihood. This was causing considerable disquiet and unrest among the fishermen community in the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, she added.
Jayalalithaa also reiterated the Tamil Nadu government's firm commitment to the restoration of the traditional fishing rights of the Indian fishermen in the Palk Bay and the retrieval of Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka.
"The Government of India should not treat the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) with Sri Lanka as a settled question as the constitutionality of the 1974 and 1976 agreements have been challenged on extremely valid and legal grounds by me in my personal capacity and also by the Government of Tamil Nadu in the Supreme Court of India," she reiterated in the letter.
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