The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Centre to provide financial assistance for installation of ISRO-developed transponders in about 6,000 fishing boats in the State so that they could be prevented from crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) and stray into Sri Lankan waters. A Division Bench of Justices S. Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad directed the State government to provide all necessary documents required by the Department of Fisheries, under the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, for sanctioning the money required to install the transponders. They observed that the Indian Space Research Organisation could make a request to the manufacturers to speed up the production of the transponders so that they could be installed in all boats that fish in the Palk Straits and thereby avert complaints of alleged attacks by the Sri Lankan Navy. The interim order was passed on a public interest litigation petition filed by Fishermen Care, a non-governmental organisation represented by its president L.T.A. Peter Ryan, seeking an inquiry by the International Court of Justice into the alleged violent attacks on Indian fishermen for reportedly trespassing into foreign waters. The judges then adjourned the case to July 2 for taking stock of the action taken by the Centre.