Kudos to the GOI.. They're taking the correct measures.. Without acting like total jackasses like the some of those retards in TN..
There is a legal procedure in a sovereign country and they are pursuing it.. If they fail in that they will have to abide by the rulings
Just because some joker of a politician in TN says these people are innocent fishermen, It does not make them so, SL Navy arrests hundreds of illegal poachers from TN every year, If they want collective punishment all them would be given the death penalty.. These smugglers were arrested in 2011 along with 3 Sri Lankans.. It had taken 3 years of judicial procedure to come to an verdict
India to appeal against Lanka court's death sentence to five fishermen | Business Standard News
The Ministry of External Affairs in New
Delhi has said that the Indian Government will appeal against the judgment of a court in
Sri Lanka to sentence five Indian fishermen to death.
Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman
Syed Akbaruddin said the Indian High Commission in Colombo will appeal to a higher court against the judgement of the Colombo High Court.
New Delhi, he said, feels the fishermen are not guilty and will pursue all legal process to prove their innocence.
The Colombo High Court had on Thursday sentenced five Indians and three Sri Lankans to death on charges of drug smuggling. The eight accused were taken into custody for heroin drug running in 2011.
The Indian fishermen from Rameswaram - P. Emerson, P.Augustus, R.Wilson, K.Prasath, and J.Lanklet - were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in November 2011. They claim that they have been falsely implicated in the case and their lawyers have said they would file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the sentence.
The fishermen were remanded earlier in a prison in Jaffna, and were later jailed at the maximum security Welikada Prison in Colombo.
The Sri Lankan court's verdict has sparked violent protests in the fishing hamlets of Rameswaram, the Hindu has reported.
The protesters have removed about a kilometer of railway track and torched a bus cutting off the traffic between Rameswaram and the mainland.
Sri Lankan President has earlier ordered the officials to release all the fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy as a goodwill gestures but that order covered only the fisherman arrested for poaching in Sri Lankan waters.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam has strongly condemned the Sri Lankan court's ruling of death sentences to the fishermen.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he strongly condemned the unjust conviction.
He said the Government of Tamil Nadu has consistently insisted that these fishermen were innocent and that the case has been foisted on them and also that the evidence against the fishermen in the court is a fabrication.