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New Delhi (Newsdesk) Jagsee Kohli, a 21-year-old resident of Tharparkar, entered the Indian border fearing his girlfriend’s family, after the Border Security Force caught him and given to the local police on Monday.

According to Indian media, BSF personnel picked up Jagsi on Sunday morning from Japada village in Barmer district, which is about 15 km from the Pakistan border.

An official in charge of the situation told the media that Jagsi was not aware that he had entered India and was caught when he was questioning with locals on a bus traveling to his village.

A senior BSF officer who questioned Jagsi said that he had claimed that he had entered India by mistake.

Jagsi told the BSF that he had a relationship with a Pakistani girl. The girl’s village is about 8 km from the Indian border.

According to Jagsi’s statement, he went to his girlfriend’s house with the intention of running away, but the girl refused at the right time and her family members were also informed about the matter from above, after that Jagsi managed to escape from the girl’s house with difficulty.

Jagsi said that since it was dark at that time, he did not know the road and was only following a light to reach the Indian village on the other side of the fence.

The BSF officer said the light he saw was probably a BSF flood light installed on the Indian side of the border.

Jagsi studies in class 11 and is able to speak and understand English, the official said. The official said that his girlfriend is an upper caste Hindu and is about 17 years old and the caste difference will probably be the biggest obstacle to their union.

The BSF officials did not find anything suspicious from him and the officials said that he had entered India for the first time. He has been handed over to the police where he will be questioned by representatives of various security agencies, officials said.

Kritika Yadav, circle officer of Chohton police station in Barmer district, told media that the Pakistani man was handed over by the BSF on Monday and will now be produced before a joint inquiry committee after completing the necessary formalities

According to Hindustan Times, the incident recalls Gemara Ram, a 17-year-old boy from Kumharu in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, who was crossing the international border on the night of November 4, 2020, after being caught with a girl. . His family said on November 16 and learned later that he had been captured by the Pakistani Rangers.

A Pakistani court sentenced him to 6 months in prison, which ended in January 2022. However, due to pending formalities between the two countries, he remained in a Pakistani prison until February 14, 2024 and then returned at home.

Meanwhile, according to the Times of India report, when Jagsi reached the girlfriend’s house and refused to run away, he tore off the girl’s scarf and tried to commit suicide by hanging from a nearby tree, but the branch tree if broken is Agra on the ground.

During this failed suicide attempt by Jagsi, the girl’s family also came to him and slapped Jagsi, but he somehow escaped from them and crossed the border out of fear.