Kulbhushan Jadhav has rejected filing review plea, says Pak

July 08, 2020 20:02

Pakistan has claimed that Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav has refused to file a review petition and wants to go ahead with his pending mercy plea.

"He (Kulbhushan Jadhav) preferred to follow up on his pending mercy petition...Pakistan has offered second consular access to him," said additional attorney general Ahmed Irfan while addressing a media conference along with the DG South Asia in Islamabad.

On June 17, 2020, Kulbhushan Jadhav was invited to file a petition for review and reconsideration of his sentence and conviction. Exercising his legal right he refused to file a petition for review and reconsideration of his sentence and conviction, the additional attorney general added.

India is in contact with Pakistan through diplomatic channels on implementation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, informed sources over the matter had told ANI in May.

In July last year, the ICJ, by a vote of 15-1, had upheld India's claim that Pakistan has committed an egregious violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations on several counts.

The world court had ordered Islamabad to carry out an effective "review and reconsideration" of his conviction.

Jadhav was purportedly "arrested" from Balochistan by Pakistani security forces on March 3, 2016, after he allegedly entered the country from Iran as claimed by Islamabad.

India has rejected Pakistan's allegations about Jadhav's involvement in spying and subversive activities and said he was kidnapped from the Iranian port of Chabahar where he was running a business.

-- ANI

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