Chennai, Aug. 7 -- Expressing deep anguish and concern over the continuing arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, Chief Minister M K Stalin today wrote to External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr.S.Jaishankar to take immediate and effective measures to secure the release of all the detained fishermen and their boats from the Lankan authorities

In a Demi-Official letter to Dr Jaishankar, copies of which were released to the media here, Mr Stalin drew his immediate and personal attention to the recent apprehension of 14 Indian fishermen, along with their mechanised fishing boat and an unregistered country craft, by the Sri Lankan Navy in the early hours of yesterday.

"It is deeply concerning that, despite my repeated appea...