ICJ Sets Dates for Pleadings to Be Filed in Kulbhushan Jadhav Case

The ICJ has instructed Pakistan that it must “take all measures at its disposal” to prevent the execution of Jadhav.

the ICJ had instructed Pakistan that it should “take all measures at its disposal” to prevent the execution of Jadhav.

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Internationational Court of Justice has fixed 17 April 2018 and 17 July 2018 as the respective time limits for filing of written pleadings in Kulbhushan Jadhav case, reported ANI.

According to a TOI report, in May 2017, the ICJ had instructed Pakistan that it should "take all measures at its disposal" to prevent the execution of Jadhav.

On 25 December 2017, the Pakistan High Commission had let Jadhav meet his wife and his mother in Islamabad, in a heavily guarded Foreign Affairs Ministry building.

However, there was no consular access granted during the meeting. The Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh, who had accompanied the two women, was initially separated from them.

The mother and wife of Jadhav were being provided with a meeting with him in the light of “Islamic traditions and based on purely humanitarian grounds,” Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal had said.

India had also approached the ICJ, accusing Pakistan of violating Article 36 of the Vienna Convention by refusing to provide consular access to Jadhav.

(With ANI, TOI inputs.)

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