On
Thursday, the Peshawar High Court gave the federal government a month
deadline to complete his repatriation process.
Indian
national Hamid Nihal Ansari was on Tuesday released from a
Pakistani jail to be repatriated to India, six years after he was
detained by the country's intelligence agencies and subsequently
sentenced to three years' imprisonment for possessing a fake
Pakistani identity card, according to a media report.
Ansari,
a 33-year-old Mumbai resident, was lodged in the Peshawar Central
Jail after being sentenced by the military court on December 15,
2015. His three-year jail term ended on December 15, 2018 but he was
not able to leave for India as his legal documents were not ready.
On
Thursday, the Peshawar High Court gave the federal government a month
deadline to complete his repatriation process.
The
Indian national was released from Mardan jail on Tuesday and was
shifted to Islamabad for his onward journey to India, state-run Radio
Pakistan
reported.
Ansari
went missing after he was taken into custody by Pakistani
intelligence agencies and local police in Kohat in 2012 and finally
in reply to a habeas corpus petition filed by his mother, Fauzia
Ansari, the high court was informed that he was in custody of the
Pakistan Army and was being tried by a military court.
He
entered Pakistan from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had
befriended online.
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