Indian nationals sentenced to death in Qatar for espionage - A look at timeline of events

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Qatar Court on Thursday announced death sentence for eight Indian Navy personnel who had been arrested in August last year on charges of spying on a submarine program on behalf of Israel. The verdict has been termed 'deeply' shocking by the Indian government. The Indian nationals, all employees of Al Dahra company, were taken into custody in August last year in an alleged case of espionage.

The charges against the Indian nationals were not made public by Qatari authorities. India's ambassador to Qatar met the men in prison on October 1 after being granted consular access. The chief executive of Dahra Global traveled to Doha to try and get his officials released.

But the newspaper says that he also found himself in solitary confinement for two months, before being released on bail. Captain Navtej Singh Gill, Captain Saurabh Vashisht, Commander Purenendu Tiwari, Captain Birendra Kumar Verma, Commander Sugunakar Pakala, Commander Sanjeev Gupta, Commander Amit Nagpal and Sailor Ragesh. The eight Indian nationals worked at Qatar’s Dahra Global Technologies and Consulting Services.

It is a private company that offers training and various other services to the defense and security agencies of Qatar. According to media reports, Dahra Global Technologies and Consulting Services is a company advising on a Qatari program aimed at obtaining high-tech Italian-made submarines that could evade radar detection. The company was shut down in May 2023, Al Jazeera reports.

The company had employed as many as 75 Indian nationals, most of them being former Navy personnel. Here is a timeline of events Qatari authorities took former Indian naval officers into custody on unspecified charges. After months of detention, the Qatari authorities