Italian marines case: Deposit compensation, SC tells Govt

The Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre to deposit in its account Rs 10 crore that Italy has agreed to pay as compensation over the February 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines off the Kerala coast.
Hearing a plea by the Centre, which urged it to shut legal proceedings towards marines Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde stated it is going to think about the prayer solely after the quantity is deposited. Senior advocate Suhail Dutt, showing for the Republic of Italy, advised the bench, additionally comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, that the compensation quantity, payable when it comes to the award dated May 21, 2020 by the Arbitral Tribunal, constituted underneath the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to which India is a celebration, will likely be deposited within the account to be specified by the Ministry of External Affairs.
“We direct that after the amount is received by the Union of India, the same shall be deposited in this Court within a period of one week,” the bench stated, fixing April 19 because the date for the following listening to. In July 2020, the federal government had advised the highest court docket that it had determined to just accept the Tribunal’s ruling.