TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has welcomed the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to put on hold the execution of retired naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav in an alleged espionage case saying this verdict brings a rare moment of relief, joy and renewed hope that he will one day return home.
“I welcome the ICJ verdict. My thoughts tonight are with Kulbhushan Jadhav, alone in a prison cell in Pakistan and with his distraught family for whom this verdict brings a rare moment of relief, joy & renewed hope, that he will one day be free to return his home in India,” the outgoing Congress President said in a tweet.
His
remarks came after ICJ put on hold the death sentence to Jadhav by a Pakistani
military court for alleged espionage. The ICJ also accused Pakistan of denying
India consular access to Jadhav, saying it has not only violated the Vienna
Convention on diplomatic relations, but has also ignored a 2008 bilateral
agreement on consular access.
