External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said thai it is injustice to 39 indians missing in Iraq declare dead .The minister making in a ststement in Lok Sabha that the search will continue till there is concrete evidence about their fate.

The Minister refuted the allegation that the government was misleading the nation on the issue. She said it would be a "sin" to announce the 39 Indians who went missing in June 2014 in Mosul as dead as long as there is any proof.

"We did not find any bodies, list, video or any photo. I thought we should at least search for them," she said.

She also said that all the information was culled from different sources and there was no evidence to support any of the claims.

The Minister said that in a war there are four categories of people - the Prisoners of War, the missing, those killed and those believed to be killed. She said there have been cases of people believed to be killed but have been found alive several years later.

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan asked Sushma Swaraj to make a statement on the issue.

The abducted workers, mostly from northern India, were working in a construction company near Mosul when militants captured the Iraqi city in 2014.