{"id":307299,"date":"2018-12-18T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307299"},"modified":"2018-12-18T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:18:35","slug":"mumbai-man-released-from-pakistani-jail-reaches-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-man-released-from-pakistani-jail-reaches-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai man, released from Pakistani jail, reaches India\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-man-released-from-pakistani-jail-reaches-india\/hamid\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307300\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307300 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hamid-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hamid-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hamid-449x420.jpg 449w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hamid.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>Hamid Nehal Ansari, a Mumbai man who was released from a Pakistani jail after six years for alleged espionage charges, crossed over to the Indian side at the Attari-Wagah\u00a0border on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He was welcomed by his family members, including father Nehal and mother Fauzia, who were waiting at the border along with a large contingent of India-Pakistan\u00a0friendship activists and officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In Mumbai Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist and former legislator Krishna Hegde, who helped the family in the past few years, expressed happiness on Ansari\u2019s return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Pakistan had alleged that Ansari, 33, an engineer, was an &#8220;Indian spy&#8221; who illegally entered the country, and accused him of involvement in anti-state crimes, forging documents, and jailed him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">For the family of Ansari, it was an ordeal since November 2012 when he left the country for Kabul for employment and then was reported &#8220;missing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the reports, he became friendly with a Pakistani girl on social media and reached Kohat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to save her from a forced marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ansari on November 12, 2012, crossed over from Afghanistan border in Jalalabad to Peshawar in Pakistan where he was arrested by Pakistan intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A military court later, sentenced him to three years in jail. Despite his three-year jail term having ended, he was kept in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamid Nehal Ansari, a Mumbai man who was released from a Pakistani jail after six years for alleged espionage charges, crossed over to the Indian side at the Attari-Wagah\u00a0border on Tuesday. 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