Two Italian Naval guards charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kerala Coast were today remanded to three-day police custody by a Judicial Magistrate at Karunagapally in the Kollam district.
First Class Judicial Magistrate K.P. Joy, at whose residence the Marines were produced and remanded the two accused to judicial custody till March 5th, but handed over them to the investigators accpeting a plea put forth by the police for further questioning into the matter. The marines could not be produced in a court as it was a holiday due to Mahashivratri festival.
Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone were arrested by the Kerala Police on Sunday and brought ashore from the ship which was intervened and anchored at the port, were brought to Kollam for court proceedings from Kochi.
The two Italians have been charged with murder under Section 302 of IPC.
The arrest of the two men who were part of the six-member security detail of Enrica Lexie from Italian Navy, climaxed four days of heavy negotiations netween the two countries India and Italy over the incident, which has sparked a diplomatic row.
The Italians claimed that the fishermen Valentine Jalestine and Ajeesh Binki, who had set out to sea along with nine other fishermen on February 15th were shot on suspicion that they were pirates.
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