July 4 (AZINS) The International court of justice (ICJ) based in The Hague, Netherlands will announce its final decision in Kulbhushan Jadhav case on July 17. Both Indian and Pakistani government have been informed about the date by the ICJ.

The final oral hearing on the case happened from February 18th to 21st, 2019 at the world court when both India and Pakistan presented their arguments.

Kulbhushan Jadhav is an Indian national who was abducted by Pakistani spy agency ISI-Inter-Services Intelligence from Iran and later a Pakistani military court announced that he will be hanged alleging that he is a spy.

India has been demanding consular access of Jadhav since 25 March 2016 when the High Commission of India in Islamabad was first informed of his custody with Pakistan authorities. 

Islamabad has refused to provide consular access to Jadhav so far. India went to the world court on 8th May 2017 and filed a case against Pakistan for “for egregious violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963” and got a stay on his hanging.

On 18 May 2017, the ICJ delivered its Order asking Pakistan to not go ahead with the execution. The order said, "Pakistan shall take all measures at its disposal to ensure that Jadhav is not executed pending the final decision in these proceedings and shall inform the Court of all the measures taken in implementation of the present order." 

India in its application has asked ICJ for suspending the death sentence.

On 25th December 2017, Pakistan allowed Kulbhushan's mother and wife to meet him in Islamabad, an event that became a media circus with Pakistani foreign ministry even removing footwears and Mangalsutra of Kulbhushan's wife. 

Kulbhushan Jadhav case timeline