India To Take Up Killing Of Capt.Kalia By Pakistan Forces ToICJ After SC’S Approval
01 June, Udaipur
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that in last one year NDA has given corruption free government in the center.
While addressing media persons in Udaipur Monday Smt Swaraj said there is transparency in the decision making process of the government. She said now discretionary power of allotment has been stopped and auction process has been adopted.
Smt Swaraj said Prime Minister Make in India programme objective is to generate employment in the country. Referring to the social security schemes She told reporters that small businessman can take loan from Mudra Bank.
The Foreign Minister in the matter of brutal killing of Captain Saurabh Kalia said that the Union government will file an affidavit in the Supreme Court and after getting permission will take the matter into International Court of Justice.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that it is open to invoking the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if allowed by the Supreme Court in the case of the martyred Captain.
In response to a media query today the spokesman said that the position which the government had taken in the apex court through an affidavit on 26th September 2013 has now been reviewed. He said, the government will request the Supreme Court to pronounce its judgment on the legality of the stand, taking into account the exceptional circumstances.
In the proceedings before the apex court, the government has conventionally held the view that India and Pakistan cannot invoke compulsory jurisdiction of ICJ in disputes of armed conflicts and hostilities as both are the members of Commonwealth nations. However, this position has now been reversed. Captain Kalia, along with five other soldiers, was taken prisoner by Pakistani troops during the Kargil war in 1999. They were held captive and allegedly tortured before their bodies were handed back to India in 1999. The incident had caused widespread anger across the country.
However, Pakistan has been consistently denying the charges of torture, stating that the soldiers may have died because of poor weather conditions.