Summary Captain Saurabh Kalia was killed in Pak custody after being captured in Kargil sector in 1999.
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister A K Antony said on Sunday that India is pursuing with Pakistan the case of Captain Saurabh Kalia, who was killed in Pakistan’s custodoy after being captured in the Kargil sector in May 1999,
"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 wreath at martyr’s monument.
The Minister was asked if India was pushing for a probe by Pakistan into the death of Captain Kalia.
Captain Kalia 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 Supreme Court had on Friday sought 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.
Capt Kalia alongwith five other soldiers were caught by the Pakistan Army, which kept them in captivity for over 22 days, but after the death of Kalia Pakistan handed over his dead body to India on June 9, 1999.
