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| Sri Lanka sends 30 prisoners back to India |
| 2013-08-21 |
| Sri Lanka has handed over at least 30 Indian prisoners to their country where they will serve their remaining sentences as part of a bilateral agreement signed between the two countries three years ago. Nine prisoners who were flown to India between August 12 and 15 brought the number of Indian prisoners currently transferred to their home country to 29, said a statement from the Indian High Commission in Colombo. The first 20 prisoners were sent back to India between February and March this year. Six of them were from Kerala while 12 from Tamil Nadu. The exchange of prisoners between Sri Lanka and its closest neighbour India, comes after a bilateral agreement, the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners, which was signed in June 2010 between the two governments. |
| Posted by:Steve White |