Chennai, Nov 05 (ANI): Protesters, on Wednesday
(November 05), took to streets in Chennai city of Tamil
Nadu against death penalty given to Indian fishermen in
Sri Lanka. Five Indian fishermen were arrested by the
Sri Lankan Navy in 2011 on charges of smuggling drugs
and on October 30, the Colombo High Court held the five
fishermen guilty of drug trafficking. The arrest of the
Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy has been a
major topic of debate between the two nations. Former
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, earlier,
wrote several letters to former Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and present Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking
to pressurise Sri Lankan authorities to free fishermen
detained in the country.
