Whereas addressing a plea regarding the dying penalty handed down by an Indonesian court docket to a few Indian nationals, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Friday directed the Indian Consulate in Indonesia to take vital measures to make sure that the convicted people obtain correct authorized illustration and applicable help in pursuing appellate treatments.
Moreover, the Consulate has been instructed to facilitate communication between the convicted people and their households in India.
Advocate Ashish Dixit, Standing Counsel for the Central Authorities and the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA), accepted the discover on behalf of the respondents and requested time to acquire directions within the matter.
Justice Sachin Datta, presiding over the case, scheduled the subsequent listening to for Could 6, 2025, and directed the MEA to have interaction with the Indonesian authorities diplomatically to guard the rights of the Indian nationals below relevant worldwide conventions or bilateral agreements, if any.
The case entails a petition filed by the spouses of three Indian nationals–Raju Muthukumaran, Selvadurai Dinakaran, and Govindasamy Vimalkandhan–who have been sentenced to dying by an Indonesian court docket for narcotics-related offences.
In keeping with the plea, the three males have been employed at a shipyard once they have been detained by the Indonesian Narcotics Division for possession of narcotics.
Subsequently, they have been convicted and sentenced to dying below Indonesian regulation, as per the judgment of the Tanjung Balai Karimun District Courtroom dated April 25, 2025.
The petitioners, wives of the convicted people, contend that their husbands are the only real breadwinners of their households and lack the monetary means to pursue the prescribed appellate treatment in Indonesia.
They additional spotlight that the limitation interval for submitting an attraction is extraordinarily strict, necessitating pressing authorized motion following the judgment.