Italian marine's bail: Kerala CM accuses Centre of foul play
May 26, 2016  13:46
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Just in: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan reacts to the Supreme Court decision to allow Italian marine Salvatore Girone to go home.

The Supreme Court relaxed the bail conditions of Girone, one of the two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen off Kerala coast in 2012, and allowed him to go to his country till an International Arbitral Tribunal decides the jurisdictional issue between India and Italy.

The Kerala CM said that the accused who committed crime must be tried in India. "The court's decision based on wrong responses from the Centre. The centre is up to foul play on the marine's case from the start," Vijayan said. 



The other marine Massimiliano Latorre is already in Italy on health grounds and his stay there was recently extended by the apex court till September 30 this year. A vacation bench of Justices P C Pant and D Y Chandrachud sought a fresh undertaking from Italian Ambassador in the capital stating that if the International Arbitral Tribunal (IAT) decides jurisdictional issue in Indias favour then he will be responsible


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