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Since the Italian embassy in India had given a solemn assurance to the Supreme court (note: not to the central government) of their return, the Italian ambassador should be arrested and the embassy itself shut down. Break diplomatic ties with Italy and all trade with them until the marines are returned. This is a criminal offence by the Italian diplomats. Also, they travelled under the control and custody of the ambassador of Italy in India. The supreme court is fully within its rights to order his arrest. Whether India had the jurisdiction to try the marines could have been argued in court - but nobody can deny that India has full jurisdiction to arrest the people who stood as surety for their travel.
We can easily afford to do that much, it's not like we need tiny Italy to survive. Sure, India may not have much diplomatic or military clout on a global scale, but lets not forget one thing - neither does Italy. They are no USA or Britain either. They need the Indian market a lot more than we need them. If we break off all trade relations with them, and close our market to Italian products, they will be a hit a lot harder than us.
Let's see what price they are prepared to pay for the sake of two marines facing murder charges.
yaar i understand your anger b/c i'd feel the same way if it happened to us but be rational too; going into the Italian embassy and arresting a serving diplomat (an ambassador at that) would be equivalent to indians invading italian territory and nabbing its citizens which have immunity
if things went the way you wanted it to, you'd be sparking off a hell of a show and a hell of an international incident
why not just take the issue to the ICJ? and was the indian government really thinking that the Italians would send their own soldiers back to another country with a jail cell waiting for them? come on now!
it's like angry Pakistanis coming out and demanding the Americans to return Raymond Davis (as well as the drivers of the US embassy vehicles which ran down 2 civilians). I'd love to see that, but i know it aint happening