AMN
A Pakistani court has sentenced 350 Indian fishermen for fishing inside the country’s territorial waters after they entered a guilty plea and ordered their repatriation.
Judicial magistrate Salman Amjad Siddiqui visited the district jail in Malir yesterday to indict 350 fishermen, who have been detained since January 27.
When the magistrate read out the charges against them, all the fishermen pleaded guilty of fishing inside Pakistani territorial waters.
The court then took a lenient view and convicted the fishermen for a period they have already spent in detention.
The Court also directed the jail authorities to approach the department concerned to make arrangements for their repatriatio