Colombo: Sri Lanka will hand over two Indian prisoners, who have served a life sentence in the island country, to India on Wednesday and Thursday under the Saarc prisoning agreement, a senior prison official said here.
A spokesman for Chandana Makanayake prison told PTI that the additional secretary for the Ministry of Justice had told commissioners General in prison to release the two Indian citizens.
“They will be handed over to Indian police officials at Colombo International Airport today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday),” he said without identifying both Indians to protect their privacy.
One convict serving a lifetime imprisonment has been imprisoned for more than 12 years for ownership and import of narcotics and charged under poisons, Obium and dangerous drugs (amendments), said echayay.
The second, was indicted under the hazardous drug law, serving in prison here for the past 6 years.
India-Sri Lankan bilateral agreement on the transfer of people who was sentenced to be signed in June 2010, paved the way for the transfer of prisoners to prison in their home country.
The agreement provides conditions where the transfer can occur and various liabilities of the country of removal and recipient countries.