In a highly provocative move, a Pakistani Army court has sentenced businessman and former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav to death on charges of espionage and sabotage for the Research & Analysis Wing.

The Ministry of External Affairs, in a demarche issued to the Pakistani High Commissioner, has warned that if the sentence is carried out, the government and the people of India will regard it as a case of 'premeditated murder'. The Indian government has strongly denied Jadhav's association with any security agency..