New Delhi: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramesinghe has said that the island nation's Navy is only acting as per law by firing at Indian fishermen who violate norms by entering Lankan waters.

"If someone tries to break into my house, I can shoot. If he gets killed...Law allows me to do that," Ranil told a Tamil news channel on Friday night.

He said that shooting of fishermen does not amount to human rights violations.

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“Why are you coming into our waters? Why are you fishing in our waters? Stay on the Indian side. There will be no issue,” he said.

"This is our waters. Fishermen of Jaffna (capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka) should be allowed to fish. We stopped them from fishing. That's why the Indian fishermen came in. They are willing to have a deal. Let's have a reasonable settlement but not at the cost of the livelihood of northern fishermen," he said.

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On Katchatheevu, he said, "Katchatheevu is a part of Sri Lanka. Delhi also thinks it is a part of Sri Lanka. I know it is a part of Tamil Nadu politics."

When asked about China factor in Indo-Lanka relations, he said that Sri Lanka will handle its relations with India and China ‘separately' from each other.

He quickly added that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Lanka is a goodwill one to restore the ties between the two countries.

Meanwhile, he accused former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of giving money to LTTE leader V Prabhakaran in the run-up to the 2005 elections.