He suggested two options that India could pursue. "India could declare them (marines) offenders and could scale down diplomatic contact with Italy… It is for the government of India to decide."
According to another former envoy K.P. Fabian, it was wrong of Italy to go back on its personal word to India and the Supreme Court that the marines would be sent back.
He said with Rome set to have a new government in the next few days the current government probably wanted to bring the affair "to a conclusion before it leaves office".
He also suggested that the Italian government could have made up its mind not to return the two marines when it filed a plea in the Supreme Court to allow them to fly back to Rome to vote in the elections.
