ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: While describing a Pakistani Military Court’s proceedings which led to the death penalty for the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav as ‘farcical’, India on Monday said that if he was executed as per Court’s verdict, they would consider it “premeditated murder”.
Earlier in the day, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) informed via a press release that the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) had awarded death sentence to the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent and serving Naval Officer Kulbhushan Yadav for carrying out espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan.
In response, the Indian External Affairs Ministry summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit and handed over a demarche to him.
“If this sentence (is) against an Indian citizen, awarded without observing basic norms of law and justice, is carried out, the government and people of India will regard it as a case of premeditated murder,” the demarche said according to the Hindustan Times.
“The proceedings that have led to the sentence against Jadhav are farcical in the absence of any credible evidence against him. It is significant that our high commission was not even informed that Jadhav was being brought to trial,” it said, adding that “senior Pakistani figures have themselves cast doubt about the adequacy of evidence.”
“The claim that Jadhav was provided with a defending officer during the so-called trial is clearly absurd in the circumstances.”
The Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav was arrested red handed in March last year by law enforcement agencies (LEAs) while infiltrating into Pakistan from the Saravan border area of Balochistan with Iran. Later in his confessional statement, he admitted to fomenting terrorism in Balochistan and Karachi.
