Sri Lanka Navy arrests 6 Indian fishermen for allegedly having cocaine, seizes boat

The Sri Lanka navy arrested six Indian fishermen and seized a boat near Nainatheevu, on Sunday. The navy alleged to found Cocaine with the fishermen during a search that led to their arrest. The year is not going so well for Indian fishermen, as it is not a first incident of Indian fishermen's arrest by Sri Lankan navy. On March 26,



as many as 12 fishermen were arrested and two trawler boats were seized by the Sri Lanka Navy from the Pudukkottai and Nagapattinam districts of Tamil Nadu. Before that on March 21, the navy had arrested 10 Indian fishermen and had seized their boat from the sea area north of the Delft island in Ramanathapuram, Rameswaram.