Attari (Amritsar), Oct 25: A Mumbai-based software engineer, who claimed to have inadvertently crossed to Pakistan in 2007 by Samjhauta Express while he was suffering from depression and was jailed there for five years, was today repatriated.
32-year-old Bhavesh Parmar, a resident of Ville Parle area in Mumbai, crossed over to India from the Zero line here and was received by his mother Hansa Kanti and Mumbai MLA Krishna Hegde who helped the family to take up the matter of his repatriation with Indian and Pakistan governments.
After having spent five years in detention in Pakistan's Kot Lakhpat Jail at Lahore, Bhavesh was given Emergency Travel Certificate by the Indian Embassy in Islamabad to enable him to return to India.
Narrating his ordeal, Bhavesh said “I was detained in Kot Lakhpat Jail after being convicted under the Foreigners Act for want of mandatory travel papers.
