India summons Lanka envoy, issues demarche on jailed fishermen

India on Wednesday summoned the Sri Lankan high commissioner and issued a demarche on the issue of 114 Indian fishermen lodged in Lankan jails. 

Sri Lankan high commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam was summoned by joint secretary (BSM) Harsh Vardhan Shringla and a formal demarche was made against the large number of 

Indian fishermen who are in their custody, official sources said.

India’s high commission in Colombo too raised this matter formally with the Lankan foreign ministry on Wednesday.