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| A seized Indian fishing trawler anchored in a fishing jetty in Jaffna. File pix |
Eleven Indian fishermen were handed in two years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) by Kayts Courts yesterday for committing a repeated crime of engaging in illegal bottom trawling in Northern waters.
The Court convicted eleven fishermen including the skipper out of fifteen of them who were taken into custody by the Navy near Delft island on October 10.
Among them, ten fishermen and the skipper were found to be arrested for a second time by authorities for engaging in bottom trawling. The rest of them were handed in one year RI suspended for five years.
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