A 44-year-old man who went missing from Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh five years ago and was later unknowingly jailed in Pakistan has returned to India, an official said on Monday.
Raju Pindare, a resident of Indhwadi here, has been handed back to the Indian authorities and a four-member team of policemen and a medical professional has been sent to Amritsar to bring him here, Additional Collector Shankarlal Singhade said.
“We got information about Pindare’s handover to India through the Red Cross Society of Amritsar. He will be handed over to his family after legal formalities are completed,” Singhade said.
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Subhash Sharma, project manager, Amritsar Red Cross Society, said Pindare was released by Pakistan authorities at the international border at Wagah on February 14 and handed over to Khandwa police on Monday.
Khandwa Superintendent of Police (SP) Vivek Singh said that he is in constant touch with the police headquarters regarding the return of the person.
Meanwhile, Pindare’s mother Basanta said that he was mentally unwell and she came to know about his arrest in Pakistan through some local officials in 2019, six months after he went missing. Basanta said that her son used to wander here and there but it is not yet known how he reached Pakistan. She also said that the family was poor and there was no possibility of her son being a spy, as alleged in some sections.
(With inputs from PTI)