This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has told the state assembly that India will take all the possible measures to make the two Italian marines return for trial. The marines allegedly killed two Indian fishermen last year and were allowed to visit Italy only for four days.
“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week informed both houses of parliament that the government would go to any extent to see that the two marines are brought back to face trial. Please see the tough stand that both the centre and our government have taken towards this, whenever this issue came up in the courts in the country,” Chandy said.
On the other hand, leader of opposition VS Achuthanadan accused Italy for always deceiving India in one way or the other. He said that right from the time Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister; Italy has never managed to maintain spotless relations with India. He quoted deals like Westland Helicopters, Bofors and the recent scam of the helicopter deal to make his point.
“Please note that when your government was in office 2006-11 under Achuthanandan, there were three separate incidents of foreign vessels ramming into our fishing boats. In one incident, when one of our fishermen died after a Chinese vessel hit his boat, you collected Rs.2 lakh as compensation and did not care to even take the ship into custody. In another case, two fishermen continue to be missing. In that case too, you collected Rs.2 lakh each as compensation and did not make any arrest. There was also another hit and run case and you did nothing,” pointed out Chandy.
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