Nacho,
This one is for you !
Are you gonna send your Navy to protect your Land ?
lol !
Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, on Thursday, moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Central Government to retrieve from Sri Lanka the Kachatheevu island, off Rameshwaram, that India ceded in 1974.
The AIADMK chief contended that then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave away Kachatheevu without suitably amending the Constitution, mandatory for effecting any change in Indian territory.
The Opposition leader in the Tamil Nadu Assembly sought the court's direction to the Central Government to restore the right of Indian fishermen to visit the island with their fishing vessels.
In her lawsuit, filed through counsel Srikala Guru Krishnakumar, Jayalalithaa said that Kachatheevu, in the narrow Palk Strait that separates India from Sri Lanka, 'was historically the part of Raja of Ramnad jamindari (landholding) and, after the abolition of the jamindari system in 1948, became part of the Madras presidency.' But the Indian government, acceding to an unjustified Sri Lankan territorial claim over the island, being made since 1921, ceded it to Sri Lanka in 1974, she said.
She said that the 'island was used by the fishermen of both the countries to dry their nets, to rest and to pray in St Antony's Church, built by an Indian fisherman of Ramnad on the island
Edited By - chennaiguuy - 8 Aug 2008 00:55:35 GMT |