Take Capt Saurabh Kalia's case to ICJ: Veterans league urges Centre

May 21, 2017 18:33

The Himachal Pradesh chapter of ex-servicemen league has urged the Centre to moved the International Court of Justice in the case of Army Captain Saurabh Kalia.

During the 1999 Kargil conflict, Kalia was tortured by his Pakistani captors who later handed over his mutilated body to India.

The league's chief, Major (retired) Vijai Singh Mankotia said Kalia's case also be taken to the ICJ, the UN's highest judicial body, to get justice on the lines of Kulbhushan Jadhav.

The ICJ at the Hague has stayed the execution awarded to Jadhav in Pakistan after a military court summarily convicted him of espionage and engaging in subversive activities after India knocked its doors.

Mankotia said the Indian ex-servicemen league and the family of Captain Kalia had made this demand to the previous governments but could not hear anything positive about it.

"Now, after the case of Jadhav in the ICJ, a ray of hope has risen in Kalia's case too," he said.

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