Indian Ambassador Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit said the bodies had been taken to Baghdad International Airport and would be flown back on a military flight, arriving in India on April 2.
Though 39 Indians were killed as the Islamic State took over the city of Mosul in 2014, the mortal remains of 38 will be brought back as identification of one body is still pending, Singh said before leaving.
Earlier this month, Swaraj had told Parliament that as many as 40 Indians were abducted by terror group ISIS from Mosul in Iraq in June 2014, but one of them escaped posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh.
Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a suo motu statement in the Rajya Sabha, had said that all the 39 Indians abducted by the terror outfit in Iraq's Mosul three years ago are dead and their bodies have been recovered.
No government can declare its 39 nationals dead based on the testimony of a single witness, who survived the massacre.
VK Singh said that the government never misled anyone on the matter and that always presented accurate facts related to the search of all Indian citizens in the war-torn nation.
Masih was one of the 40 Indian workers taken hostage by ISIS when the dreaded terrorist organisation overran Iraq's second largest city Mosul in 2014.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today informed the parliament that the Indians abducted in Iraq in 2014 were killed by Islamic State terrorists and buried in a mass grave.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj earlier in the day told Parliament that all the 39 Indians abducted in Mosul are dead and their bodies have been recovered.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that all 39 Indians in ISIS captivity were dead and their bodies had been recovered.
Randeep Surjewala said the Modi government has "crossed all limits of insensitivity" as it preferred to make the announcement on television rather than calling up every families and informing them individually.
Speaking on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj said that the mortal remains will be brought back to India by MoS for External Affairs VK Singh.
PM Narendra Modi noted that the government remains fully committed towards ensuring the safety of "our sisters and brothers overseas".
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