SC to Hear Italian Marine’s Plea to Return Home on 26 May

Italian Marine Salvatore Girone moved Supreme Court on 23 May seeking permission to go to Italy.

Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone. (Photo: Reuters)

• Italian Marine Salvatore Girone, who is currently detained in India, moved the Supreme Court on 23 May seeking permission to go to Italy till the jurisdictional dispute is decided by International Arbitral Tribunal. The apex court will hear his plea on 26 May.
  
  
• The co-accused in the case, Massimiliano Latorre was allowed to return to Italy due to health problems.
  
  
• In 2012, India arrested the two Italian marines on the suspicion that they killed two fishermen they had mistaken for pirates, while escorting an oil tanker.

(With PTI inputs)