Sir — This refers to the editorial, “Fake emotion” (December 27). The only relief for the Jadhav family during their visit to Pakistan to meet Kulbhushan Jadhav was to see him alive. However, it is disheartening that they could not establish any personal contact; there was no free interaction; and there is no surety if Jadhav was not under pressure from Pakistani authorities while talking.
To make matters worse, Pakistani officials insulted the mother and wife of Jadhav when in the name of security, they asked them to remove their bangles, bindi, mangalsutra and shoes. All of this has mocked Pakistan’s claim that it allowed the “meeting” on “purely humanitarian” consideration. In yet more shameful act, authorities in Pakistan seized the shoes of Jadhav’s wife and sent them for forensic examination and then came up with a bizarre claim that they discovered “something” in them which could be a SIM, a small camera or a chip, meant to record the conversation between the family. There is no guarantee if they themselves might have planted ‘something’ in her shoes and made a case against Jadhav’s family on the basis of a cooked forensic report.