{"id":872,"date":"2017-03-09T04:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=872"},"modified":"2017-03-09T04:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:44:21","slug":"sri-lanka-to-release-all-85-indian-fishermen-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-to-release-all-85-indian-fishermen-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to release all 85 Indian fishermen in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday decided to release all 85 Indian fishermen who are now in its custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fishermen will be released as soon as possible, the orders have been passed,\u201d a top source in the Sri Lankan government told The Hindu. The Indian government too is likely to reciprocate the gesture and release the 19 Sri Lankan fishermen in its custody, the source said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day after Britjo\u2019s death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development comes two days after Tamil Nadu fisherman K. Britjo was shot dead in the Palk Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil Nadu fishermen have accused the Sri Lankan Navy of opening fire at the fisherman, but the Sri Lankan Navy has denied the charge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pcrstb-wrap\"><table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>Following the 21-year-old fisherman\u2019s death, which sparked protests among fisherfolk in Rameswaram, India\u2019s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu met Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday and conveyed India\u2019s \u201cdeep concern\u201d over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Terming it a matter of \u201cgrave concern\u201d, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry on Tuesday assured India of all possible cooperation in probing the death.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the 85 fishermen is in line with the Sri Lankan government\u2019s policy of swiftly releasing fishermen it arrests on charges of poaching, but retaining the trawlers seized.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, a total of 146 Indian trawlers are in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: The Hindu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday decided to release all 85 Indian fishermen who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}