In other news, the Supreme Court today directed the Kerala government to consider within one week the plea for transferring to a guest house the two Italian marines, arrested in connection with the killing of Indian fishermen,on board the Enrica Lexie. 

Senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for the Italian government, submitted that the marines were decorated officers and it would be proper for them to be shifted to a guest house. 

He told the court that the Italian government had made a request to the Kerala government as early as March 8, but the state government had not taken any decision on the issue till date.

The two Italian marines have been charged with killing two Kerala fishermen Valentine and Ajesh Binki on February 15, this year, suspecting them to be pirates. They are lodged in Thiruvananthapuram Central Jail.