Salvatore Girone News
The Centre has deposited Rs 10 crore in the Supreme Court, which was paid by Italy.
The amount was paid as compensation to the kin of the two Kerala fishermen who were shot dead in 2012 by two Italian Marines.
The Supreme Court office revealed that the Centre deposited the compensation amount on April 26.
It said that it has accepted the Arbitral Tribunal's award United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which held that India is entitled to get compensation in the case but the trial of the marines will take place in Italy.
The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the plea filed by an Italian marine under investigation for the killing of two fishermen, who was allowed to go home while international arbitration into the case goes on.
Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone are facing murder charges for killing two Indian fishermen while they were on duty as security guards on-board the Italian-flagged commercial oil tanker MV Enrica Lexie.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Italian marine Salvatore Girone to return home during arbitration into 2012 deaths of Indian fishermen.
Two Italian marines - Chief Master Sergeant Massimiliano Latorre and Sergeant Major Girone - are accused of killing in 2012 two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast.
Italy has requested India's Supreme Court to urgently enforce a UN arbitration tribunal's decision enabling Italian marine Salvatore Girone to quickly return from India, where he is being held on murder charges.
It has been claimed that PM Modi held a private conversation with his Italian counterpart Renzi on the sidelines of a UN meeting.
Italy and India dispute jurisdiction over the drawn-out case and an arbitration verdict is not expected before August 2018 at the earliest.
Government on Tuesday asserted in Lok Sabha that the UN arbitration tribunal's order allowing a murder-accused Italian marine to return home from India pending its proceedings has "affirmed" the Supreme Court's authority and not questioned it.
The government said on Monday that Italy was misrepresenting the UN arbitration tribunal order in the Italian marine case.
A UN arbitration court has ruled that India should release an Italian marine, who has been detained in Delhi for more than four years, and allow him to return home, the Italian foreign ministry said on Monday.
Italy on Wednesday asked judges in The Hague to order India to release a detained Italian marine, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was due at an EU-India summit in Brussels at which he aims to defuse the long-running row with Rome.
Gentiloni`s remarks came after a court in the Hague said the arbitration verdict in the case would not come before August 2018.
The international arbitration in the case is due to begin on January 18.
Expressing solidarity with the people of Kerala, Tharoor said that not just the people of Kerala but the people of India will also take the matter seriously.
Earlier, a senator in Rome said that the marine will not be returning to India to face trial after being allowed home temporarily for medical treatment.
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