Woman moves Madras High Court alleging husband shot by Sri Lankan navy
The Hindu
Authorities of the island nation say he fell into the sea and drowned
A woman from Pudukkottai district has moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking conduct of re-postmortem on the body of her husband who died after falling into the sea when his boat collided with a Sri Lankan naval vessel.
The petitioner, R. Brundha of Kottaipattinam, said on October 18 her husband R. Raj Kiran and two others – S. Suganthan and A. Xavier – ventured into the sea for fishing in a boat owned by Suresh Kumar. Their boat was intercepted by a Sri Lankan naval vessel. The Sri Lankan authorities told the fishermen that they had crossed the International Maritime Boundary Line and were in Sri Lankan waters.
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