{"id":246312,"date":"2021-03-31T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=246312"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:27:05","slug":"fishermen-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/03\/31\/fishermen-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Madras HC | 4 Fishermen killed by Sri Lankan Navy. State &#038; Centre to provide adequate compensation in wake of untimely deaths of fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Madras High Court: <\/strong>The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., addressed an issue wherein the association of fishermen sought compensation and jobs for the family of deceased fishermen who were recently killed by an attack apparently at the hands of the Sri Lankan navy.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;There should be no duplication of job opportunities, but the appropriate departments of the State and the Centre may coordinate and provide adequate<\/em><em> compensation in the wake of the untimely deaths of the four fishermen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association of fishermen sought to espouse the cause of the four local fishermen who were recently killed by an attack at the hand of the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly straying beyond the territorial waters of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two aspects involved in the present matter are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Compensation and Jobs for the family of the deceased fishermen<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate Police Station to conduct the investigation into the deaths of the four fishermen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With regard to the jobs to legal heirs and compensation demanded, the petitioner shall approach the Department of Fisheries of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Department of the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries under the State Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench stated that the State and Central Government may coordinate and provide adequate compensation in the wake of the untimely deaths of the 4 fishermen.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u>Investigation<\/u><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Centre and the State should coordinate to specify a particular authority, in accordance with law, that would head the investigation and bring the matter to a logical end by giving a due closure so that the families of the deceased fishermen are aware of the circumstances in which the four died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High Court in view of the above disposed of the present petition.[Fisherman Care v. Union of India, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/D36jy66Z\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine Mad 1291<\/b><\/a>, decided on 22-03-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For Petitioner: Mr <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">L.P.Maurya<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>For Respondents: Mr S.Janarthanam CGSC for respondent Nos. 1 to 4<\/p>\n<p>: Mr V.Jayaprakash Narayanan State Government Pleader for respondent No.5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., addressed an issue wherein the association of fishermen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2728,45573,33919,29785,2567,45574],"class_list":["post-246312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-compensation","tag-fishermen","tag-killed","tag-law","tag-Madras_High_Court","tag-sri-lankan-navy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Madras HC | 4 Fishermen killed by Sri Lankan Navy. 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