 Daniele Mancini has been asked to respond to the court notice by 18 March Airports across India have been told to stop Italian ambassador Daniele Mancini if he tries to leave the country, a home ministry official told the BBC. The advisory follows a Supreme Court order to Mr Mancini not to leave India after Rome's refusal to return two marines charged with the murder of two fishermen in Kerala last year. The court had allowed the marines to go home to vote in last month's elections. Mr Mancini had personally assured the court the marines would return on time. Home ministry officials said their advisory is just a routine follow-up of Thursday's Supreme Court order. The case of the Italian marines - Massimilian Latorre and Salvatore Girone - has led to a diplomatic row between India and Italy. On Wednesday, PM Manmohan Singh warned that "there will be consequences" unless Italy returned the marines. In unusually strong language, the prime minister said that Italy's refusal to send back the marines was "unacceptable". Rome's decision has come as a major embarrassment for the Indian government and opposition parties have been demanding their immediate return. The marines are accused of shooting the fishermen in February 2012. They said they mistook them for pirates. Italy argues that because the case is now the subject of international maritime law, it has been decided that the pair will not return to India "on the expiration of the permission granted to them". Rome says that it wants its nationals to be tried in Italy. Because the incident took place in international waters, Italy believes India has no jurisdiction in the case.
-- BBC News
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