There is a Registered Document
(Registration No. 510/1880, Book 1, Volume 16) evidencing the fact that on 23.06.1880, eight coastal villages and four Island, including the Katchatheevu Island, belong to the Ramanathapuram Sethupathy's were given in lease by the District Collector, Madurai jointly to one Abdul Kadar Marakayar and Muthusamy Pillai. In the year 1822 the east india company signed an agreement with ramanad king to use sixty nine village and 7 island(including katchatheevu) for their trading purpose.(if u have doubt plz go and check it in Sarawathi mahal archives )
if govt want to find a solution for this ,they can but they wont this is true fact of indian Govt
then CM karuna is a monster who still drinking the bloods of innocent tamilian for the sake of his own family ...nothing more to argue about him
For strange reasons Karunanidhi did not resort to judicial remedy to uphold the just claims. He should have challenged the ceding of the island to Sri Lanka on the following grounds. It was Indian territory and there was irrefutable evidence to prove the ownership claims. Second ceding Indian territory to a nieghbouring country requires constitutional amendment. It should be pointed out recourse to judicial remedy was successfully pursued by BC Roy, Chief Minister of West Bengal, when Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to transfer Beru Bari to Pakistan. Karunanidhi could also have insisted that the ownership claims over the island be referred to the Supreme Court for its opinion. It may be recalled that legal luminaries like MC Setalvad were of view that the island belonged to India.
Indira Gandhi pointed out that Katchatheevu Island is being ceded not on the basis of records but for other political reasons,without the concern of tamilnadu (sure Karuna wont interpt it but better to ask the opinion of Tamil fishermen this is so called federalism)Though the island was ceded to Sri Lanka, Articles V and VI of the agreement safeguarded the traditional fishing rights of Indian fishermen and also their right to visit the island for pilgrimage and drying of nets without a visa. Unfortunately the fishing rights were sacrificed in 1976, when the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mannar and Bay of Bengal was delimited. .This agreement which makes a mockery of the Indian Constitution, is according to ex External Affairs Minister, Mr.S.M.Krishna, as declared by him before the parliament "a solemn agreement.as far SC in 1960sif any Indian territory is to be handed over to any other country, it should be ratified in the Parliament by way of a Constitutional Amendment under Article 368. But it has not been done and, therefore, handing over of Kachchatheevu is unconstitutional.even the present central govt doens correct the affidavit before the SC.
According to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, territorial waters means the area from the baseline on the coast to 12 nautical miles into the sea, she said, adding that as per this definition, the 285-acre, uninhabited Katchatheevu islet, lying at a distance of 11 nautical miles from Ramanathapuram, fell within Indian waters. so SL navy have no right to kill the fishermen ,
but who is real victims of all political drama of BJP,Congress,DMK etc , innocent fishermen