Kashmir Age News Desk
New Delhi: The International Court of Justice b (ICJ) has suspended the death sentence on Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav by a Military court in Pakistan on Wednesday.
Quoting External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, a section of media reported that she has spoken to the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav and told her about the order of President, ICJ under Art 74 Paragraph 4 of Rules of Court.” Adding a legal luminary Harish Salve was representing the country on the matter.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the ICJ said: “On 8 May 2017, the Republic of India instituted proceedings against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, accusing the latter of aegregious violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations’ (hereinafter the aVienna Convention’) in the matter of the detention and trial of an Indian national, Mr. Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan,” the ICJ said in a statement on Tuesday.
India had moved the court on Monday seeking a set of reliefs including “by way of suspension of the sentence of death awarded to the accused”, and “restraining Pakistan from giving effect to the sentence awarded by the military court”.
A military court sentenced him to death on April 10 on charges of espionage and waging war against Islamabad.
New Delhi had warned that if Jadhav was hanged, it would be considered “premeditated murder” by Islamabad.
Since Jadhav’s alleged arrest in Pakistan in March last year, India sought consular access to him 16 times till this month but Islamabad refused to respond.
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