The eight Indians had been arrested final yr in an alleged case of espionage. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A Qatar court docket has accepted India’s enchantment towards the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who had been handed the sentence final month in an alleged case of espionage. Sources mentioned that the Qatari court docket will set a listening to date after analyzing the enchantment.
According to reviews, the eight males had been arrested in August 2022 by Qatar’s intelligence company for spying. But the Qatari authorities have not made the costs towards them public but. Their bail petitions had been rejected a number of occasions and the decision towards them was pronounced final month by the Court of First Instance in Qatar.
Granted consular entry to them, Indian authorities have been working to safe their launch. The Ministry of External Affairs has urged everybody to chorus from “engaging in speculation” because of the delicate nature of the case.
The arrested Indian Navy veterans are Commander Purnendu Tiwari, Commander Sugunakar Pakala, Commander Amit Nagpal, Commander Sanjeev Gupta, Captain Navtej Singh Gill, Captain Birendra Kumar Verma, Captain Saurabh Vasisht and Sailor Ragesh Gopakumar.
All of the previous Navy officers have a distinguished service document of as much as 20 years within the Indian Navy and have held necessary positions together with that of instructors within the pressure.
Meetu Bhargava, the sister of one of many former officers detained, had sought assist from the federal government to deliver her brother again. In a publish on X on June 8, she had appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene.
“These Ex-Navy officers are the pride of the nation & again I request our Hon’ble Prime Minister with folded hands that it is high time that they all are brought back to India immediately without any further delay,” learn her publish, tagged to PM Modi and Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh.