HAGUE: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has set separate deadlines for India and Pakistan for the filing of the written pleadings by them in the Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav case.
April 17 and July 17 have been fixed as “time-limits” for India and Pakistan respectively.
47-year-old Indian spy Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April last year. Subsequently, a 10-member bench of the ICJ on May 18 restrained Pakistan from executing Jadhav till adjudication of the case.
The principal judicial organ of the UN released a statement which said that the international top court authorized the submission of a reply by India and of a rejoinder by Pakistan in the Jadhav case. “The Court fixed 17 April 2018 and 17 July 2018 as the respective time-limits for the filing of these written pleadings,” said the statement issued last week. The statement further said the ICJ made its decision taking into account the views of the parties and the circumstances of the case.
