A Saudi Arabia-based company had engaged these fishermen, hailing from Ramanathapuram, Nagapattinam and Kanyakumari districts, as contract labourers on its fishing boats. Iranian authorities arrested them in December last, on charges of venturing into their waters.
According to reports received here, an Iranian court sentenced them to six months in jail and imposed a fine of $5750 on each of them. Their jail term ended in June, but they could not return home for want of resources to pay the fine.
On Sunday, Jayalalithaa sent a mail to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to personally intervene and instruct the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia to pay the fine and to ensure the safe release of the fishermen. She said it was shocking that the fishermen were not able to contact the Indian embassy in Tehran.
"No effort has been made by the Indian embassy to establish contact with them or to provide legal assistance to them or to put any pressure on the employer to secure their release by settling the fine amount," she said.
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