Jadhav-family meet: India hits out at Pak, says he was coerced

The meeting, at the Pakistani foreign affairs ministry in Islamabad, took place after repeated requests by India for family access

India on Tuesday hit back at Pakistan, accusing it of violating mutual understandings on Kulbhushan Jadhav's meeting with his family, and said the Indian national appeared coerced and under considerable stress during the tightly-controlled interaction.

Pakistan went so far as to have the mangal sutra, bangles and bindi of his mother and wife removed before they could meet him, the external affairs ministry said in a statement. Also, most of Jadhav's remarks were clearly tutored and designed “to perpetuate the false narrative” of his alleged spying in Pakistan, it said in a no-holds-barred statement against Islamabad's conduct.

Summing up its anger, India