Samba spy case accused seek Jaitley’s attention for exoneration
Over 60 army officials, implicated in Indian Army’s one of the most sordid chapter called the Samba Spy case have pleaded the Central government to exonerate them from ‘the framed up’ espionage charges. At the book launch of one of the accused Major Nirmal Ajwani (Rtd), they sought government’s attention to review their cases. The asked the government to treat their case in the same pro-active manner that it is showing in saving Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Major Ajwani said the current Defence Minister Arun Jaitley had contested on their behalf in different courts including at Delhi High Court for 17 years. “We expected sympathetic ear from this government, as both the Defence Minister and the current attorney general Mukul Rohtagi has been involved in our defence in the past. They know every detail of our case. We need to be exonerated to live in peace,” he said. Even though their imprisonment is over, the humiliation of being called a Pakistani agent have pushed many of them into severe depression.
The spy case, dragging since 1978, started with the arrest of two gunners in the Indian Army — Sarwan Dass and Aya Singh — for passing on sensitive information to Pakistan’s Military Intelligence (MI). …read more