India is pursuing with Pakistan the case of Capt Saurabh Kalia, who was tortured and killed by Pakistani troops after being captured during the Kargil conflict in May 1999, defence minister A K Antony said.
“We are handling it in an appropriate manner. We will pursue it and now we are pursuing it with Pakistan,” he told reporters here after laying a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Indian victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan.
Antony had been asked if India was pushing for a probe by Pakistan into the death of Capt Kalia. The martyr’s father, N K Kalia, has taken up the case with the United Nations Human Rights Commission for a direction to Pakistan to probe the death of his son.
He has also filed a plea in the Supreme Court to direct the government to take up the case of his son’s torture at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague.
The apex courthad on Friday sought a response from the Centre on N K Kalia’s plea. However, India is not in favour of taking the matter to ICJ as it feels that it was a bilateral issue and it has always maintained that there should be “non-interference” by ICJ in “bilateral or internal” matters.
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