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Modi, Rajapaksa meet at SAARC
November 26, 2014
PM Narendra Modi thanks Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa for pardoning and sending back five Indian fishermen on death row, earlier this month.
Modi had spoke to the Sri Lankan President on November 9 over the death sentence handed out to five Indian
fishermen.
The
five - Emerson, P Augustus, R Wilson, K Prasath and J Langlet - were
sentenced to death by the Colombo High Court on October 30 on charges of
drug trafficking.
Following the conversation, the Sri Lankan president had pardoned the men.
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