Will 8 Retired Indian Navy Officers Face Capital Punishment in Qatar? – Fact Check bust the claim

Eight former Indian Navy officers are held in Qatari jail since September last year. There have been calls for the release of these navy officers by their families. The oil and gas rich Qatar is said to have started legal proceeding against the eight former Indian officers.

According to many reports, Qatar has alleged that former Indian Navy officers were allegedly passing on sensitive information on Qatar’s submarine programme to the Israel.

Meanwhile a verified page by the name of South Asia Index tweeted that 8 former officials of India navy, who were arrested by Qatar last year, may be awarded capital punishment, as per Qatar’s laws.- Qatar media.

source : twitter

Fact Check:

To check the veracity of the viral claim DFRAC team did a google search and found no media reports on any Doha media outlets.

After thi we saerched the official social media account of Qatar government and there too found no claim.

source : twitter

Then to check further, we saw many reports on this issues on Indian media sites, but that too did not confirms anything as such.

Source: Times Now 

The report no where talks on the capital punishment being given to ex navy officers.

Also,if the Qatar government would have issued an official statement for this, Indian media would have surely covered it.

Other than this if our team will get any other leads the story will be updated accordingly.

Conclusion:

This is clear with the investigation that the claim by south Asia index is Misleading.