This Mumbai Man Spent Six Years In Pakistani Jail Because *Love*

A Mumbai man, whose relentless quest to find the love of is life landed him in a Pakistan jail, is set to finally return home on Tuesday

A Mumbai man, whose relentless quest to find the love of is life landed him in a Pakistan jail, finally returned home on Tuesday, 18 December. The 33-year-old has returning back to India through Wagah Border after spending nearly six years in prison. Hamid Ansari was arrested in Pakistan in 2012 for illegally entering the country from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. A software engineer, Hamid was 26 when he fall in love with a Pashtun woman with whom he chatted for hours and that’s when he decided to meet her at any cost.

Hamid left for Kabul on the pretext of having received a job as an airport manager in Afghanistan in the first week of November 2012. With the help of his online “lover”, he established some contacts in Kohat who arranged a lodge for him. In the meantime, Hamid told his parents that he would return back to Mumbai in two days. But right after this, he went missing, which we now know, is because he had been picked up by Pakistani authorities on charges of espionage. He was tried by a military court for espionage but it found no evidence of Hamid being an Indian spy and given a three-year sentence in 2015 for possessing a fake Pakistani identity card on December 15, 2015.

He was lodged in Pakistan’s Peshawar jail for three years; his jail term ended on December 15, 2018, but he could not leave for India as his legal documents were not ready.

Technically speaking, he should have been freed three years earlier as his jail term completed back in 2015, at the time of his sentencing.

Speaking to ANI, Hamid Ansari’s mother Fauzia said that his release is a victory for humanity.

Saying that Hamid’s release was a victory for humanity, his mother Fauzia said, that he shouldn’t have gone without a visa. “He went with noble intentions but initially went missing and was later caught and framed. He shouldn’t have gone without a visa. His release is a victory for humanity,” she told ANI.

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