India strengthen security in S/E coast

14 January 2011 10:29 am

In the wake of attack on Indian fishermen, the Indian Navy said that it would strengthen security along the south-eastern coast.

“We will strengthen security along the south-eastern coast,” chief staff officer (operations) of Eastern Naval Command (Visakhapattinam) SV Dhokare told reporters after reviewing coastal security measures.

The senior naval official undertook the exercise a day after India lodged a strong protest with Sri Lanka over the killing of a Tamil Nadu fisherman allegedly by the island navy.

Dhokare said the navy had informed the Centre about the incident in which a fisherman from Jagadapattinnam near Pudukottai was killed in alleged firing by Sri Lankan naval personnel on Wednesday.