By IANS,
New Delhi: India should hold talks with Sri Lanka to bring back around 40 Indian prisoners from there, a Kerala MP demanded in the Lok Sabha Wednesday.
“India should hold discussions with the Sri Lankan government to bring back the Indian prisoners, who have been lodged there for more than 16 years,” Muslim League MP E.T. Mohammed Basheer said.
IANS had reported that Some 40 Indian prisoners languishing in Sri Lanka’s prisons are seeking humane treatment.
One of the prisoners who contacted IANS using a borrowed mobile telephone said that most of the Indians in three jails were suffering from all kinds of mental and physical ailments
Basheer said the Indian officials were making no efforts to get them released.
“Life sentence in Sri Lanka means spending the whole life in jail. The prisoners are suffering from various mental and physical problems,” he said.
Referring to the statement tabled in the Lok Sabha July 8 by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, in which he said Sri Lanka had 33 male and four female Indian prisoners, Basheer said the number is much more than this.
The government should intervene immediately to make their release possible, he said.