Italy’s top diplomat to move HC to quash FIR
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
NEW DELHI: Italy on Tuesday rushed a top diplomat to India amid a deepening row over the arrest of two Italian Naval guards who also plan to move the Kerala High Court on Wednesday to quash the FIR charging them with the killing of two Indian fishermen at sea.
Junior foreign minister Staffan De Mistura will “continue on a political level the action so far carried out by a delegation of experts from the Italian foreign, defence and justice ministries,” the Italian foreign ministry said in a statement in Rome while announcing the visit. The statement also said that Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will visit India “personally” next Tuesday.
The petition by the two marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone was likely to be filed in the high court tomorrow, a counsel representing them told PTI in Kochi.