Condemning Pakistan government's move to award death sentence to him, EAM Swaraj said, "This is an act of premeditated murder by Pakistan". "This was not permitted by the Pakistani authorities", the statement said. "My full support is with Jadhav's family and I can accompany them if they go and meet the PM", she said. No one is opposition or government.
The Home Minister claimed that Kulbhushan Jadhav had a valid Indian visa and refuted Pakistan's claims that he was a spy. And Pakistan has repeatedly refused to grant India consular access to him. He was arrested on March 3, 2016. He wondered why a spy would carry a valid passport.
Indian High Command demanded consular access to him and it wasn't provided.
More than 40 alleged Pakistani spies have been arrested in India since 2013, according to the government. Congress's Mallikarjun Kharge questioned in the Lok Sabha. The defence minister further said that Jadhav's "confession" was a public document and if India raises the issue of his death sentence, Islamabad will reply to New Delhi.
India's foreign office summoned Pakistani High Commissioner to Delhi, Abdul Basit, to register a formal complaint.
He said Jadhav was kidnapped a year ago from Iran and his subsequent presence in Pakistan has never been "explained credibly". Replying to a question on dealing the issue on diplomatic and political fronts, he said that Pakistan would present the issue on every global forum.
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"Senior Pakistani figures have themselves cast doubt about the adequacy of evidence". The claim in the ISPR release that Jadhav was provided with a defending officer during the so-called trial is clearly absurd in the circumstances.
The Ministry said the Indian Government, through its High Commission in Islamabad, repeatedly sought consular access to Jadhav, as provided for by the global law.
"Requests to that effect were formally made 13 times between March 25, 2016 and March 31, 2017. They should appeal in the worldwide court of justice and seek stay", Kaur told PTI over phone while reacting on the Pakistan army court's verdict. According to the ISPR statement, Jadhav, a commander in the Indian Navy, "confessed" before a Magistrate and the court that he was "tasked by RAW to plan, coordinate and organise espionage/sabotage activities aiming to destabilise and wage war against Pakistan by impeding the efforts of Law Enforcement Agencies for restoring peace in Balochistan and Karachi". Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, the head of Pakistan's armed forces, signed off on the sentence.
"Jadhav was tried under Section 59 of the PAA and Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act of 1923", the ISPR said. However, India has said he was a former naval officer.
Last September, tension between the neighbors escalated after gunmen killed 19 Indian soldiers at an army camp in Kashmir, an attack India blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
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