Chennai, April 9 -- In yet another incident, ten Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy personnel while they were fishing in high seas on Thursday morning.
The fishermen, hailing from Rameswaram Island in coastal RamanathaPuram district,had ventured out into the sea last night and and were fishing in their traditional waters, when they were arrested by the Lankan Navy on charges of poaching in their territorial waters after crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and impounded their boat.
They were fishing near the Dhanushkodi area when a Sri Lankan Navy patrol boat, intercepted them and detained them.
Later they were taken to Talaimannar fishing habour in Sri Lanka and handed over to the fisheries dep...