this story originally appeared in on apr 11 2017the family of kulbhushan jadhav who was sentenced to death by a military court in pakistan for spying left their powai home on monday afternoon after the news broke and journalists began gathering to get a bytefriends said jadhavs wife his mother his son shubhankar and daughter bharvi who arrived at the familys 502 b silver oak apartment at hiranandani gardens on a vacation from pune on sunday were left shocked by the news of jadhavs sentencing just like the indian foreign office they did not have the slightest inkling of jadhav having been put on trial in pakistanjadhavs father sudhir and his uncle subhash both retired at assistant commissioners with the mumbai policehis father now leads a quiet retired life in sangli in southwest maharashtrajadhav grew up at the familys home at n m joshi marg where his childhood friends started a campaign bring kulbhushan back after his arrest in march 2016 we knew that pakistan will make kulbhushan another sarabjit said tulsidas pawar jadhav friend on mondayjadhav was picked up by pakistani authorities from the mashkel region of balochistan on march 3 last year india has maintained that jadhav a former indian navy officer was arrested from irancontrolled baluchistan where he was on a business trip jadhavs indian passport bore a valid iranian visa l9630722 at the time of his arrestpakistan charged jadhav with subversion and sabotage and he was sentenced to death by field general court martial under the pakistan army acta family friend of the jadhavs who did not wish to be identified said even close friends and relatives are not being allowed into the house he said there has been no official contact from delhi with the family yetpakistani authorities said jadhavs sentence was based on his confessional statements pakistan defence minister khwaja asif said the sentence would go a long way in acting as a deterrent for the other spies working inside pakistanpakistan has claimed that jadhav was managing a terrorist financing and training network and used to operate from chabahar in iran makran in pakistan and across a few contiguous pockets of afghanistanindias requests for consular access to jadhav have repeatedly been denied by pakistan despite as many as six note verbales being issued to the pakistan foreign ministry