The Kulbhushan Jadhav episode ruled on the last day of the Budget session of Parliament.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj asked Congress member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor to help with drafting a resolution that will be adopted by both houses.

Swaraj warned Pakistan over the death sentence and after speaking in the Lok Sabha walked up to Shashi Tharoor and asked him to draft the resolution. Tharoor accepted after seeking permission from Mallikarjuna Kharge, the leader of the Congress in the Lower House.

This is not the first time that Tharoor has been co-opted by the Modi government to draft a statement to be adopted by both houses.

The PM had asked him to draft a resolution condemning Pakistan for freeing Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a key plotter of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.  

India warned Pakistan that execution of the death sentence handed down to Kulbhushan Jadhav by a military court would be taken as "pre-meditated murder" and Islamabad should consider its consequences on bilateral relations.


"There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Jadhav. If anything, he is the victim of a plan that seeks to cast aspersions on India to deflect international attention from Pakistan's well-known record of sponsoring and supporting terrorism," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in an identical statement in both Houses of Parliament.


"Under these circumstances, we have no choice but to regard the sentence, if carried out, as an act of pre-meditated murder," she said, adding that the sentence by the Pakistani Military Court was based on "concocted charges".