Coast Guard seizes Lankan fishing boat

Coast Guard seizes Lankan fishing boat
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Kochi: Indian Coast Guard has impounded a Sri Lankan fishing boat found fishing in Indian waters, a Defence spokesman said here on Friday.

He said the boat, being brought here, would be handed over to the police after an initial investigation by the Coast Guard.

The seizure comes a day after the Coast Guard arrested 18 Sri Lankan fishermen and impounded their eight boats for fishing in Indian territorial waters off the Nagapattinam coast in southern Tamil Nadu.