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Amid Indian efforts to isolate Pak, ICJ set for hearings in Kulbhushan Jadhav case

Amid Indian efforts to isolate Pak, ICJ set for hearings in Kulbhushan Jadhav case

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | 17 Feb 2019, 01:44 pm


New Delhi/Hague, Feb 17 (UNI) The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold hearings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case on Monday at The Hague during which India and Pakistan will present their arguments before the top UN court.

"India will present its case before the court. Since the matter is sub-judice it is not appropriate for me or for India to state our position in public. We follow the rules and procedure of the International Court of Justice. We do not feel that this is something which should be, kind of, addressed through the media," MEA spokesman Raveesh Kumar has told reporters here on Thursday.


Jadhav, 48, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of 'espionage' in April 2017 but after Indian government moved the international court, the 10-member bench of the ICJ on May 18, 2017 had given a stay order and 'restrained' Pakistan from executing Jadhav till adjudication of the case.
The hearing on the case at the ICJ as per a timetable for the public hearing in the case will be held from Febraury 18 to 21.
In its written pleadings, India has accused Pakistan of violating the Vienna Convention by not giving consular access to Jadhav arguing that the convention did not say that such access would not be available to an individual arrested on espionage charges.


India has said the so called trial of Jadhav by a military court in Pakistan was "farcical".


Later in December, 2017, Kulbhushan Jadhav was allowed to meet his wife and mother but later on MEA in Delhi said it appeared Jadhav was “under considerable stress” and “speaking in an atmosphere of coercion”.

 

“The manner in which the meeting was conducted and its aftermath was clearly an attempt to bolster a false and unsubstantiated narrative of Jadhav’s alleged activities,” the ministry has said in a statement.


“The Pakistani side conducted the meeting in a manner that violated the letter and spirit of our understandings," it has said.

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