THE HAGUE: The UN’s top court will hold an emergency hearing on Monday as India seeks to stop Pakistan from executing an Indian spy.
New Delhi has already protested to Islamabad over the death sentence imposed on Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav by a Pakistani military court after he was found guilty in a closed hearing last month.
Jadhav was arrested in Balochistan last year and officials claim he has confessed to spying for Indian intelligence services.
But India has denied he was a spy, and this week lodged a protest with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Pakistan of “egregious violations of the Vienna convention”.
India was not informed of Jadhav’s detention “until long after his arrest” and Pakistan “failed to inform” him of his rights, according to New Delhi.
India is seeking the “immediate suspension of the sentence of death awarded to the accused”, the court said in a statement. “India submits that it has information that Jadhav was ‘kidnapped from Iran, where he was carrying on business after retiring from the Indian Navy’,” it added.
