On Monday, Pakistan announced death sentence to former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav for alleged spying and stoking trouble in Balochistan, which took India by surprise and it warned Islamabad that if the verdict were to be implemented it would be ‘premeditated murder’ carried out ‘without observing basic norms of law and justice’. The death sentence to Jadhav, 46, was confirmed by Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa after the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) found him guilty of "all the charges", said the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in Rawalpindi. What we know

Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested in March 2016 in Balochistan

He was sentenced to death by a Field General Court Martial

Jadhav confessed before the court that he was tasked by RAW to plan, coordinate and organise subversive activities in Karachi, Balochistan

Jadhav was provided a defending officer as per legal provisions

Pakistan had, however, turned down India's request seeking consular access to Jadhav last year due to his involvement in "subversive activities" in Pakistan. Today Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed his death sentence awarded by FGCM,” the ISPR said on Monday afternoon. Highlights Arrested in March last year on charges of spying Pak released "video confession" of Jadhav, India rejected it In video, he said he was working for top Indian intel agency RAW

Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian man arrested by Pakistan last year and accused of spying, was sentenced to death today, which set up a new flashpoint between the two countries. The statement read: “The Indian High Commissioner was summoned by the Foreign Secretary today (Friday) and through a demarche conveyed our protest and deep concern on the illegal entry into Pakistan by a RAW officer and his involvement in subversive activities in Balochistan and Karachi.”

In response, Vikas Swarup, spokesperson of India’s’ Ministry of External Affairs, stated: “The said individual (Kulbhushan Jadhav) has no link with Government since his premature retirement (he is said to have retired from the Indian Navy in 2002 and was a businessman since then) from Indian Navy. Earlier in March 2016, the Ministry of External Affairs said that the former Indian naval officer was arrested by Pakistan for allegedly engaging in subversive activities was possibly kidnapped from Iran and denied any possibilities of him being involved in subversive activities in Pakistan.
Pakistan sentences former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav to death for espionage and sabotage.