NEW DELHI: India today handed over to Pakistan an appeal by the mother of retired Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death by a military court, to the appellate court, initiating a process to get his conviction overturned.
The appeal on behalf of Jadhav was given to Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua by Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale, who also handed over a petition by Jadhav’s mother seeking the Pakistan Government’s intervention for his release and expressing the desire to meet him.
Bambawale, who met Janjua, also made a fresh request for consular access to Jadhav, the external affairs ministry said in press release here. This is the 16th request for access.
“Also handed over was an appeal by the mother to the Court of Appeal, on behalf of Jadhav, who continues to be in detention in Pakistan on concocted charges,” the ministry said.
In the petition, Jadhav’s mother has made a request for the intervention of Federal Government of Pakistan for his release and expressed the desire to meet him, it said. (AGENCIES)
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