By Amantha Perera and Dharisha Bastians 

The manner in which the saga of the Indian ship damaging Sri Lanka's main connectivity to international phone lines ended last week has raised questions whether there was high level interference at diplomatic level.

Soon after the ship damaged the cable, authoritative letters from officials at the Ports and Aviation Ministry read that it should be detained immediately pending further investigations. Court orders were called for to arrest the ship but when the order was obtained, the Indian vessel had already set sail.

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