Will move ICJ again if Jadhav doesn't get fair trial: Salve

India's lead counsel on the Kulbhushan Jadhav case Harish Salve on Thursday said that India would move the world court if Pakistan fails to conduct a fair trial in espionage case.

New Delhi:Senior lawyer Harish Salve, who represented Kulbhushan Jadhav in International Court of Justice (ICJ), has claimed that India would move the world court if Pakistan fails to conduct a fair trial in espionage case.

"I am an incorrigible optimist and we will again move the world court if Pakistan fails to conduct a fair trial in Kulbhushan Jadhav's case," Harish Salve said on Thursday.

The former Solicitor General of India, said Pakistan was bound to give a fair trial to Jadhav even in a military court following the verdict of the ICJ.

The ICJ on Wednesday ordered Pakistan not to execute Jadhav and asked it to reconsider the death sentence awarded to him by a military court.

The world court also directed Pakistan to grant consular access to Jadhav, while holding that it had "breached" the Vienna Convention in this regard by denying him this right.

The court found that Pakistan deprived India of the "right to communicate with and have access" to Jadhav to visit him in detention and to arrange for his legal representation, and thereby breached the obligations incumbent upon it under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

Pakistan alleged that Jadhav was a senior Indian intelligence officer who entered Pakistan illegally to carry out acts of sabotage when he was caught.

A military court later sentenced him to death on charges of terrorism.

Salve reiterated that Pakistan should realise the importance of this crucial judgment, and once it does, then diplomacy will be the preferred channel.