Sc Issues Notices To Centre, Tamil Nadu On Kachathivu Issue

SC issues notices to Centre, Tamil Nadu on Kachathivu issue 1/5/2009 The Supreme Court issued notices to the Union Government and the state of Tamil Nadu on a petition filed by AIADMK chief and former state Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa seeking direction to the government to retrieve Kachathivu island from Sri Lanka. Earlier, counsel for the petitioner submitted before a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Markandey Katju and P Sathasivam that the island which was given to Sri Lanka in 1974 should be taken back as Indian fishermen were not being allowed to go for fishing in the island. The petitioner also contended that no part of the Indian territory should be given to any other country and the treaty under which the island was handed over was illegal and unconstitutional. UNI

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