Mumbai: In a Mumbai suburb, an entire neighbourhood was glued to the TV sets Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Hamid Nihal Ansari, who they last saw six years ago. Hamid is expected to return here on Wednesday.
As soon as the 33-year-old crossed the Wagah-Attari border and kissed the Indian soil, his neighbours in Versova celebrated by hugging each other and distributing sweets.
Ansari then hugged his parents who were present at the border to receive him, six years after he was detained by Pakistani intelligence agencies for entering the country illegally reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online.
Ansari was detained in 2012 after he entered the country from Afghanistan and subsequently sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a military court in 2015. (PTI)
