Qatar frees eight former Indian Navy officers after handing them death sentence

Photo for representation.New Delhi: Eight retired Indian Navy officers walked free from Qatari custody, on Monday, ending a months-long saga that saw them sentenced to death for alleged espionage, only to have their fate reversed. The release marks a...

Ex-Indian Navy men’s death sentence in Qatar commuted, but quick repatriation to India unlikely

Photo for representation.New Delhi: The eight former Indian Navy officers whose death sentence has been commuted by a court of appeal in Qatar will now have to serve between three and 25 years in a Qatari prison, according to some sections of the cou...

Qatari court commutes death sentence handed to former Indian Navy officers

Representative photo.New Delhi: In what should come as an immediate but temporary relief to India, a Qatari court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of eight former Indian Navy personnel to varying prison terms. The men, who were detained in Aug...

India’s ambassador to Qatar meets 8 ex-Indian Navy personnel on death row

(Photo for representation.)New Delhi: The Qatar government allowed the Indian ambassador to the emirate to meet all the eight former Indian Navy sailors who have been sentenced to death by a Qatari court in October for purported espionage, India&rsqu...

Qatar sentences eight former Indian Navy officers to death, ‘shocks’ New Delhi

Representative photo.New Delhi: Eight former Indian Navy officers were handed the death penalty by a court in Qatar on Thursday in an alleged case of espionage. The verdict has sparked outrage in India, with New Delhi calling it “deeply shockin...

In Qatar, trial on for Indian Navy veterans ‘charged with spying for Israel on secret submarine programme’

Representative image.New Delhi: As Qatar starts the trial process against eight Indian Navy veterans working for the emirate’s subsidiary of Oman-based Dahara Global – a private company, details are slowly emerging on why the Indian ex-se...