The 56 Indian fishermen arrested in Sri Lanka for allegedly poaching in the country’s territorial waters have been moved to the immigration centre here after they completed their mandatory quarantine period, a top prison official said on Wednesday.
They have been moved to the Mirihana detention centre, prison commissioner and spokesman Chandana Ekanayake told PTI.
The 56 Indian fishermen — who were arrested in December-mid by the Sri Lanka Navy — were freed by a Sri Lankan court in the northern Jaffna peninsula last month.
However, most of them tested positive for the COVID-19 and were quarantined at a centre in the north.
Since their arrest in December, two more batches of Indian fishermen have been arrested by Sri Lanka. All of them have been remanded until February 21 and 22, according to the fisheries department.
The arrests of Indian fishermen come as the local immigration officials are making arrangements to repatriate the 56 Indian fishermen.
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