| New Delhi |
Published: July 17, 2020 1:22:20 am
Kulbhushan Jadhav is a former Indian Navy officer who is on death row on charges of spying and terrorist activities. (File)
Indian consular officers who were allowed access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row in Pakistan on charges of spying, had to leave the meeting as the consular access provided by Pakistan was “neither meaningful nor credible”, Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Thursday.
Pakistan also did not allow Indian diplomats to carry the “Power of Attorney” for Jadhav to sign, a legal document that would have allowed the Indian government to hire a lawyer to represent Jadhav's case in Pakistan's courts, The Indian Express has learnt.
New Delhi now has two options before itself — either approach Pakistan's courts or go back to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and appeal for Islamabad's non-implementation of its orders.
Giving a complete account of the consular meeting and the run-up to it, MEA spokesperson Srivastava said, “Over the past year, India has requested Pakistan more than 12 times to provide unimpeded, unhindered and unconditional consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who remains incarcerated in Pakistani custody since…
