The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has asked Pakistan to review its order of death sentence awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav, on charges of espionage and conspiracy against Pakistan.

As the ICJ put the death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav on hold, it comes as a major win for India. The verdict was pronounced in favour of India with a 15:1 vote.

The ICJ, while pronouncing its verdict, said, "Court finds that Pakistan deprived India of the right to communicate with and have access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, to visit him in detention and to arrange for his legal representation and thereby breached obligations incumbent upon it under Vienna Convention on Consular Relations."

India has also been granted consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav and Pakistan has been held guilty for denying India consular access to Jadhav.

President of the Court Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf read out the verdict at a public sitting at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.

Pakistan had claimed that its security forces arrested Kulbhushan Jadhav from Balochistan province on March 3, 2016 after he entered via Iran.

However, India has maintains that Jadhav was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.

Pakistan repeatedly rejected India's plea for consular access to Jadhav, claiming that New Delhi wants access to get the information gathered by its "spy".