Six Sri lankan refugees were arrested Sunday at the fourth sand dune off Danushkodi coast when they were returning to Sri Lanka without informing
authorities at the camps where they were staying.
Police said the refugees had left the camps at Karur, Erode, Tiruchirapalli and Bhavani sagar on March 31 and engaged a boat at Rameswaram to go back to their country.
However ferry operators dropped them off at the fourth sand dune, misleading them by saying it was Talaimannar and they could go to Jaffna from there, police said
The refugees told the officials that they had remained stranded at the sand dune since March 31.