Unfortunate that govt agreed to modify Italian marine's bail conditions: Cong
September 21, 2016 22:54
The Congress on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Italian marines issue in the wake of Centre telling the Supreme Court it has no objection over one of the two marines to remain in his country.
Party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi termed the Centre's deposition before the apex court "most unfortunate".
"I have two answers which make my head hang in sorrow '" if you had to incrementally, piecemeal, partially let the marines go home, why did not you say it the first time in 2014," he said.
"Why this repeated piecemeal confession every 2-3-4 weeks through the courts, in diplomatic visits to Italy and elsewhere," he asked.
He recalled that in March 2014, as then Gujarat chief minister, Modi had attacked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. "Italian marines mercilessly killed our fishermen. If Madam is so patriotic, can she tell us in which jail are the Marines lodged," he had the said.
Hitting back, Singhvi said, "Modi tell us whether the jail which he has sent the marines to has the markings of Made in Italy and which Jail in India has he kept the marines after we handed over the marines to him in an Indian jail, this is Mr Modi."
The government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday it has no objection on Italy's fresh plea seeking modification of bail conditions of marine Massimiliano Latorre to enable him remain in that country till an international tribunal decided which country had the right to try the case of killing of two Indian fishermen.
Massimiliano Latorre and Capo Salvatore Girone, who were on board the Italian-flagged commercial oil tanker 'Enrica Lexie', are accused of killing two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast on February 15, 2012.
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