Dr. Subramanian Swamy writes to His Excellency, Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, Colombo:
October 31, 2014
I expect to arrive in Colombo on the night of November 24th to address on the 26th the Lalith Athulathmudali Memorial Lecture on 'SAARC Reforms and Globalization'.
During my stay from November 25 to 27th, I wish to meet you to raise some pending bilateral issues.
One issue is the recently convicted narcotics drug Tamils from India. You may recall that Sri Lanka, during your visit to India, had concluded a bilateral treaty in New Delhi on June 9, 2010 called 'Treaty on Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners' with the Government of India.
Invoking this Treaty, Sri Lanka obtained the transfer of a Tamil Sri Lankan citizen who had been convicted for drug peddling in Tamil Nadu and sentenced to death.
Hence, I have written to our Government to take up this issue with your Government, if possible and get custody of the five Indians of Tamil Nadu convicted recently by your Court, then lodged them in Tihar Jail in Delhi pending their appeal, if any, to our Supreme Court.
Warm regards,
Yours sincerely,
Subramanian Swamy