News @ 3 - 4th October 2018

HAGUE: International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday announced to conduct public hearings in Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case in February 2019, ARY News reported.

According to a statement released by ICJ, the court will hold public hearings in the
Jadhav case from Monday, February 18 to Thursday, February 21 at the Peace Palace in Hague.

India had moved the ICJ in May 2017 after Jadhav, 48, was sentenced to death by a military court on charges of espionage.

A 10-member bench of the international court on May 18 had restrained Pakistan from executing Jadhav till adjudication of the case.

In its written plea, India had accused Pakistan of violation of the Vienna Convention by not giving consular access to his spy, arguing that the convention did not say that such access would not be available to an individual arrested on espionage charges.

In response, Pakistan through its counter-memorial on December 13 told the ICJ that the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963 applied only to legitimate visitors and did not cover clandestine operations.