The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has reserved its
orders on a writ petition seeking to close down the Indian High Commission and
Embassy at Sri Lanka and to recall its ambassador as a mark of International
protest.
Solai
Kannan, Madurai district president of Hindu Makkal Katchi, filed a writ petition
in the Madurai Bench through his counsel Peter Ramesh Kumar stating that India
had voted against Sri Lanka in the International Forum for War Crimes on the
genocide committed in the island nation during the Eelam war IV.
Counsel
Peter Ramesh Kumar further stated that during the month of December 2012 and
January 2013, 367 Hindu temples were demolished by the Sri Lankan Forces in
Tamil-dominated areas and also Tamil names of 89 villages have been renamed in
Sinhala language.
The
counsel also argued that over thousands of fishermen from Tamil Nadu have been
killed by the Sri Lankan Navy.
