NEW DELHI: India`s external affairs ministry summoned on Wednesday the Pakistani deputy high commissioner on the issue of the death sentence handed down to Kulbhushan Jadhav by a military tribunal in Pakistan and made a fresh demand for consular access to the Indian national.
The ministry`s officials met Syed Haider Shah and claimed that Jadhav was innocent and that false charges had been framed against him, according to sources.
Mr Shah`s summoning came five days after Indian Ambassador to Pakistan Gautam Bambawale met the Pakistani foreign secretary and sought a certified copy of thecharge-sheet and the court order in the case.
`We definitely want to appeal against the judgement but we cannot do it unless we have the details of charges and a copy of the verdict.
So, my demand was that details of the charge-sheet and a copy of the verdict be provided to us,` Mr Bambawale had said after the meeting.
`I have asl(ed for consular access on the basis of the international law and on humanitarian grounds as he [Jadhav] is an Indian national,` the ambassador added.
