In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, which was released to the media on Friday, she sought his intervention to secure the release of 86 Indian fishermen and 42 fishing boats from Sri Lanka's custody.
She expressed a "deep sense of anguish and pain" over fishermen from Tamil Nadu suffering attacks at the hands of Sri Lankan navy while exercising their traditional fishing rights in the Palk Bay.
"In spite of my repeated representations to you on this critical livelihood issue of the fishermen of TN, harassment and arrest of fishermen continue unquestioned and unabated," Jayalalithaa said. India's passive response had emboldened the Sri Lankan navy to act in a highhanded and repressive manner, she said.
Noting that such repressive actions needed to be condemned, she said the Centre should not continue to remain a passive spectator in the face of "the highhanded belligerence" of the Lankan navy.
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